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The present paper reports on the study of deterministic instabilities in the atomic cloud of a magneto-optical trap. Giant periodic and erratic self-oscillations are experimentally observed and analyzed through a simple original model taking into account the shadow effect and the spatial distribution of the atoms in the cloud. We show that giant oscillations are induced by a homoclinic orbit merging in the neighborhood of a Hopf bifurcation.
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