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In the field of photonics, optical chaos is chaos generated by laser instabilities using different schemes in semiconductor and fiber lasers. [1] Optical chaos is observed in many non-linear optical systems. One of the most common examples is an optical ring resonator. [2]
Optical chaos was a field of research in the mid-1980s and was aimed at the production of all-optical devices including all-optical computers.[ citation needed ] Researchers realised later the inherent limitation of the optical systems due to the nonlocalised nature of photons compared to highly localised nature of electrons.
Research in optical chaos has seen a recent resurgence in the context of studying synchronization phenomena, and in developing techniques for secure optical communications. [3]
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