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Chaos in a good-cavity single-mode dye laser due to turbulent dye flow.

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Results are presented that demonstrate that the light intensity of a good-cavity single-mode standing-wave dye laser can exhibit chaotic behavior, and that the chaos is probably due to the turbulent flow of dye within the dye cell.
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Experimental results are presented that demonstrate that the light intensity of a good-cavity single-mode standing-wave dye laser can exhibit chaotic behavior. The governing attractor is of dimensionality 6.5 and entropy 50 kbits/sec. An examination of the pump-laser beam before and after its interaction with the dye indicates that the chaos is probably due to the turbulent flow of dye within the dye cell. This interpretation is confirmed by the absence of chaos in two similar dye lasers that use a dye jet rather than a dye cell.

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Estimation of the Kolmogorov entropy from a chaotic signal

TL;DR: In this paper, a method for estimating the Kolmogorov entropy directly from a time signal is proposed and tested on examples, which should prove valuable for characterizing experimental chaotic signals.
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A narrowband single-mode dye laser

TL;DR: In this paper, the linewidth of a cw-single-mode tunable dye laser has been investigated and it was found that the linwidth is determined by microscopic velocity fluctuations of the turbulent flow within the dye cell of the laser and by fluctuations of pump power.
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Deterministic chaos and dynamical instabilities in a multimode cw dye laser.

TL;DR: The dimensionality of the system and its degree of chaos have been found to depend on the spectral power density and the contributions of stochastic and of chaotic processes to the limited mode correlation time have been unraveled.