Abstract
Recent experiments on an optical oscillator with photorefractive gain have shown that the output field undergoes periodic or chaotic alternations among a small number of patterns. The above features are explained by a dynamical model, based only on symmetry arguments, and hence applicable to a variety of physical situations.
- Received 9 October 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3723
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