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    CHAOS IN LASER-MATTER INTERACTIONS

    by P W Milonni (LANL) , M-L Shih (LANL) , & J R Ackerhalt (LANL)

     
    Contents:
    • Dissipative Systems:
      • Introduction
      • Nonlinearity
      • Period Doubling to Chaos
      • Lyapunov Exponent
      • Power Spectra
      • Correlations
      • Remarks
      • Feigenbaum Universality
      • Feigenbaum Universality: Outline of Exact Renormalization Theory
      • Experimental Observations
      • Duffing Oscillator
      • Period Doubling to Chaos in a CO2 Laser Experiment
      • Bifurcations
      • Intermittency (Pomeau-Manneville) Route to Chaos
      • Quasiperiodicity to Chaos: Ruelle-Takens-Newhouse Scenario
      • Strange Attractors, Dimensions, and Fractals
      • Measuring Lyapunov Exponents
      • Measuring Dimensions
      • Kolmogorov Entropy
      • Noise
      • Maxwell-Bloch Equations
      • Lorentz Model and Single-Mode Laser
      • Single-Mode Instabilities: Homogeneous Broadening
      • Mode Splitting
      • Inhomogeneous Broadening: Chaos Associated with Casperson Instability
      • Inhomogeneous Broadening: Experiments
      • Multimode Instabilities
      • Physical Explanations of Self-Pulsing Instabilities
      • Transverse Mode Effects
      • More Laser Instabilities
      • Optical Bistability
      • Chaos in Optically Bistability
    • Hamiltonian Systems:
      • Classical Hamiltonian Systems
      • Integrability and Action-Angle Variables
      • Integrability, Invariant Tori, and Quasiperiodicity
      • Ergodicity, Mixing, and Chaos
      • Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Model
      • KAM Theorem
      • Overlapping Resonances
      • Henon-Heiles Model
      • Characterization of Chaotic Behavior
      • Is Classical Physics Really Deterministic?
      • Kicked Pendulum and Standard Mapping
      • Chaos in a Classical Model of Multiple-Photon Excitation of Molecular Vibrations
      • Chaos in a Classical Model of a Rotating Molecule in a Laser Field
      • Stochastic Excitation
      • Quantum Chaos
      • Regular and Irregular Spectra
      • Kicked Two-State System
      • Chaos in the Jaynes-Cummings Model
      • Quantum Theory of the Kicked Pendulum
      • Localization
      • Classical and Quantum Calculations for a Hydrogen Atom in a Microwave Field
      • Epilogue
     
    Readership: Laser scientists and engineers, physicists, applied mathematicians and researchers in nonlinear dynamics.
     
    β€œI recommend this well written and scholarly book most strongly.”
    Journal of Modern Optics

     
    β€œIt could serve as a textbook for a course on dynamical chaos.”
    Physics in Canada
     
    384pp    Pub. date: Jun 1987  
    ISBN:   978-9971-5-0179-2
    9971-5-0179-1
       US$74 / £59

     


    384pp    Pub. date: Jun 1987  
    ISBN:   978-9971-5-0180-8(pbk)
    9971-5-0180-5(pbk)
       US$39 / £31

     


     

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