“…In the present work, the dynamical behavior of a beam that spatially behaves according to a Van der Pol map, here called a Van der Pol beam, within a ring phase-conjugated cavity is modeled. As shown, the behavior of a beam may be obtained by making an arbitrary well-defined chaotic map [10,11,12]. Particularly, the Henón [14], Bogdanov [15], Ikeda [16], Duffing [17,18], Standard [19] and Tinkerbell maps [20,21] were employed, among others.…”