GENERATION OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL TURBULENCE

We consider an optical resonator containing a single mode fiber. It is driven in synchronism with its round trip time by a train of picoseco nd laser pulses. Due to the fiber nonlinearity and repetitive interfer ence, complex substructure in the pulse is generated. Through variatio n of dispersion in the resonator, we can tune from purely temporal cha os to spatio-temporal chaos, or turbulence. Numerical simulations are compared with experimental results. Intrapulse correlations provide a measure of the degree of complexity.