Loss of Phase and Universality of Chaotic Laser Interactions


  Amir Sagiv  ,  Adi Ditkowski  ,  Gadi Fibich  
Department of Applied Mathematics, Tel Aviv University

We show that laser beams lose their initial phase in nonlinear propagation. Therefore, prediction and control of long-range interactions between beams become impossible. The statistics of these chaotic interactions, however, are universal and computable.