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Instabilities leading to self-pulsing, period doubling and chaos are predicted to occur in two simple systems in nonlinear optics. Namely, second-harmonic generation, inside a coherently driven optical cavity, and subharmonic generation internal to the laser cavity.
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Savage et al. (1983) studied this question.
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