Abstract

When a nematic film was inserted in a Fabry-Perot interferometer, the output would break into periodic oscillation at sufficiently high input laser intensity^[1]. It can be proved that in the system of Ref.[1], the periodic oscillation can not develop to chaotic motion for a constant input because it is a two-dimensional autonomous system. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the optical frequency-locking and chaos of a nematic liquid crystal film in a Fabry-Perot interferometer with a periodic optical drive.

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