Transition from harmonic behavior to chaos in the interference of plane waves in a nonlinear medium
Gorshkov V. G. , Danileiko Yu. K. , Lebedeva T. P. , Nesterov D. A.
Experiments and numerical simulations on the interference of plane waves described by a one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation show that a transition can occur from a simple harmonic behavior of the system to a dynamic chaos.