Abstract
A sodium-filled Fabry-Perot resonator shows many different types of irregular behavior. A sophisticated experimental apparatus allows reproducible measurements of oscillation scenarios leading to chaos and thus permits a detailed classification of the different phenomena. A quantitative explanation — featuring a new mechanism — for the best reproducible class of chaotic oscillations is given.
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