Instabilities and Chaos in Quantum Optics II

Laser (and Maser) Instabilities.- 25 Years of Laser Instabilities.- Shil'nikov Chaos in Lasers.- Instabilities in Fir Lasers.- Analysis of Instability and Chaos in Optically Pumped three Level Lasers.- Theory and Experiments in the Laser with Saturable Absorber.- Gas Laser Instabilities and their Interpretation.- Experimental Studies of Instabilities and Chaos in Single-Mode, Inhomogeneously Broadened Gas Lasers.- Multistability and Chaos in a Two-Photon Microscopic Maser.- Bistable Behavior of a Relativistic Electron Beam in a Magnetic Structure (Wiggler).- Classical and Quantum Noise.- Pump Noise Effects in Dye Lasers.- Quantum Chaos in Quantum Optics: Lectures on the Quantum Dynamics of Classically Chaotic Systems.- Transverse Effects.- Transverse Effects in Nonlinear Optics.- Spatial Chaos in Bistable Optical Arrays.- Instabilities in Passive Optical Systems: Temporal and Spatial Patterns.- Dynamics in Optical Bistability and Nonlinear Optical Media.- Ikeda Delayed-Feedback Instabilities.- Experimental Investigation of the Single-Mode Instability in Optical Bistability.- Dynamics of Optical Bistability in Sodium and Transient Bimodality.- Optical Bistability: Introduction to Nonlinear Etalons GaAs Etalons and Waveguides; Regenerative Pulsations.- Spatial and Temporal Instabilities in Semiconductors.- Four-Wave Mixing and Dynamics.- Methods of Analysis in Nonlinear Dynamics.- Bifurcation Problems in Nonlinear Optics.- Strange Attractors: Estimating the Complexity of Chaotic Signals.- Methods of Adiabatic Elimination of Variables in Simple Laser Models.- Meeting report.- Instabilities, Dynamics and Chaos in Nonlinear Optical Systems.- Contributors.