%0 Journal Article %A Cabrera Granado, Eduardo %A Melle Hernández, Sonia %A Gómez Calderón, Óscar %A Guerra Pérez, José Manuel %T Dynamic transition from modelike patterns to turbulentlike patterns in a broad-area Nd:YAG laser %D 2006 %@ 0146-9592 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52219 %X We report the first experimental observation to our knowledge of a dynamic transition from modelike patterns to completely disordered patterns in a large-aspect-ratio Nd:YAG laser. Recordings of near-field patterns with an integration time as small as 1 ns allow us to follow the evolution of the transverse intensity profile along the output pulse of the laser. %~