DYSCO

The PhLAM complex systems dynamics team has its roots in the studies of instability and chaos in lasers that were initiated in the laboratory more than thirty years ago. These works started from the observation, still current, that the study of the complex dynamics of optical systems has a double advantage. On the one hand, a system with spontaneous oscillations or erratic dynamics gives us more information than if it were stationary, is more "talkative". On the other hand, lasers and other optical sources have both strong non-linearities, very fast time scales, and an often excellent signal-to-noise ratio.