Homoclinic chaos for ray optics in a fiber (Q1181165)
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Homoclinic chaos for ray optics in a fiber (English)
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27 June 1992
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In the framework of the Hamiltonian description of an axisymmetric, translation-invariant medium, i.e. where the refraction index is a radial function, it is shown in the geometrical optics approximation that standard attractors exist. Furthermore, it is shown for these structures, that special symmetry-breaking perturbations of the refraction index destroy these attractors and move the system into homoclinic chaos and Arnol'd diffusion.
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fiber optics
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invariant manifolds
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homoclinic chaos
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geometrical optics
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