Research Letter

Experimental Investigation of the Transition to Spatiotemporal Chaos with a System-Size Control Parameter

Figure 2

Spacetime contour diagram for patterns of different sizes, with the “laser” number at the top representing the length of the laser-beam cross-section, which sets the width of the pattern perpendicular to the director.
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