title: Deterministic chaos in a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser passively Q switched by a Cr4+:YAG crystal.
abstract: We report the experimental observation and numerical simulation of deterministic chaos in a diode-pumped Nd:YAG solid-state laser that is passively Q switched by a Cr4+:YAG crystal saturable absorber. We show that apart from the stable Q-switched operation the laser can also exhibit complicated nonlinear dynamics, including the period-doubling route to chaos and periodic windows.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798. edytang@ntu.edu.sg
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: X L
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Meng