Abstract
Period-doubling to chaos and phase conjugation are two nonlinear optical phenomena which have attracted enormous but largely independent interest in recent years. In this paper we establish a close connection between the two phenomena, both being forms of near-degenerate four-wave mixing. We also report a new and rather unexpected feature of the Ikeda problem: the existence of a stable 3tR oscillation below the period-doubling threshold.
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Firth, W.J., Wright, E.M., Cummins, E.J.D. (1984). Connection between Ikeda Instability and Phase Conjugation. In: Bowden, C.M., Gibbs, H.M., McCall, S.L. (eds) Optical Bistability 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_17
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