Nonlinear Interaction of Transversal Modes in a CO2 Laser

Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz, G. B. Mindlin, C. Perez-Garcia +1

We show the possibility of achieving experimentally a Takens-Bogdanov bifurcation for the nonlinear interaction of two transverse modes ($l=\pm 1$) in a $C{O}_2$ laser. The system…