This report distills those issues of Chaos Theory essential for military decision makers while conducting a thorough review of Chaos applications in military affairs. Designed for courses at the various war colleges, the paper explains how to recognize Chaos, where to expect Chaos, and how to exploit the theories of Chaos and fractals. The essay includes a tutorial of nonlinear dynamics--assuming no math prerequisites--and an extensive bibliography. The universal features ...
In many laser applications, the frequency of light produced by the laser is doubled by a crystal with nonlinear optical properties. The presence of such a crystal inside a laser cavity can produce large, irregular fluctuations in the output intensity. This thesis examines nonlinear systems of ordinary differential equations for the longitudinal mode intensities (physical observables) and gains of intracavity doubled lasers. A new system of equations is derived which ...
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