title: Stable oscillations of a spatially chaotic wave function in a microstadium laser.
abstract: Laser action on a single spatially chaotic wave function is obtained as a final stable state in a nonlinear dynamical model of a stadium shaped resonant cavity with an active medium. The stable single-mode lasing state corresponds to a particular metastable resonance of the cavity which wins a competition among multiple modes with positive net linear gain and has a distinct lasing threshold.
authors.affiliation: ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0228, Japan.
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harayama
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Kensuke S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Ikeda