- •1 Introduction
- •1.1 Historical Survey
- •1.2 Patterns in Nonlinear Optical Resonators
- •1.2.1 Localized Structures: Vortices and Solitons
- •1.2.2 Extended Patterns
- •1.3.3 Optical Feedback Loops
- •1.4 The Contents of this Book
- •References
- •2 Order Parameter Equations for Lasers
- •2.1 Model of a Laser
- •2.2 Linear Stability Analysis
- •2.3 Derivation of the Laser Order Parameter Equation
- •2.3.1 Adiabatic Elimination
- •2.3.2 Multiple-Scale Expansion
- •References
- •3 Order Parameter Equations for Other Nonlinear Resonators
- •3.1 Optical Parametric Oscillators
- •3.2.1 Linear Stability Analysis
- •3.2.2 Scales
- •3.2.3 Derivation of the OPE
- •3.3.1 Linear Stability Analysis
- •3.3.2 Scales
- •3.3.3 Derivation of the OPE
- •3.4 The Order Parameter Equation for Photorefractive Oscillators
- •3.4.1 Description and Model
- •3.4.2 Adiabatic Elimination and Operator Inversion
- •3.5 Phenomenological Derivation of Order Parameter Equations
- •References
- •4.1 Hydrodynamic Form
- •4.2 Optical Vortices
- •4.2.3 Intermediate Cases
- •4.3 Vortex Interactions
- •References
- •5.2 Domains of Tilted Waves
- •5.3 Square Vortex Lattices
- •References
- •6 Resonators with Curved Mirrors
- •6.1 Weakly Curved Mirrors
- •6.2 Mode Expansion
- •6.2.1 Circling Vortices
- •6.2.2 Locking of Transverse Modes
- •6.3 Degenerate Resonators
- •References
- •7 The Restless Vortex
- •7.1 The Model
- •7.2 Single Vortex
- •7.3 Vortex Lattices
- •7.3.2 Parallel translation of a vortex lattice
- •7.4.1 Mode Expansion
- •7.4.2 Phase-Insensitive Modes
- •7.4.3 Phase-Sensitive Modes
- •References
- •8 Domains and Spatial Solitons
- •8.1 Subcritical Versus Supercritical Systems
- •8.2 Mechanisms Allowing Soliton Formation
- •8.2.1 Supercritical Hopf Bifurcation
- •8.2.2 Subcritical Hopf Bifurcation
- •8.3 Amplitude and Phase Domains
- •8.4 Amplitude and Phase Spatial Solitons
- •References
- •9 Subcritical Solitons I: Saturable Absorber
- •9.1 Model and Order Parameter Equation
- •9.2 Amplitude Domains and Spatial Solitons
- •9.3 Numerical Simulations
- •9.3.1 Soliton Formation
- •9.4 Experiments
- •References
- •10.2 Spatial Solitons
- •10.2.1 One-Dimensional Case
- •10.2.2 Two-Dimensional Case
- •References
- •11 Phase Domains and Phase Solitons
- •11.2 Phase Domains
- •11.3 Dynamics of Domain Boundaries
- •11.3.1 Variational Approach
- •11.4 Phase Solitons
- •11.5 Nonmonotonically Decaying Fronts
- •11.7 Domain Boundaries and Image Processing
- •References
- •12 Turing Patterns in Nonlinear Optics
- •12.1 The Turing Mechanism in Nonlinear Optics
- •12.2.1 General Case
- •12.2.2 Laser with Saturable Absorber
- •12.3.1 Turing Instability in a DOPO
- •12.3.2 Stochastic Patterns
- •References
- •13 Three-Dimensional Patterns
- •13.1 The Synchronously Pumped DOPO
- •13.1.1 Order Parameter Equation
- •13.3 The Nondegenerate OPO
- •13.4 Conclusions
- •13.4.1 Tunability of a System with a Broad Gain Band
- •13.4.2 Analogy Between 2D and 3D Cases
- •References
- •14 Patterns and Noise
- •14.1 Noise in Condensates
- •14.1.1 Spatio-Temporal Noise Spectra
- •14.1.2 Numerical Results
- •14.1.3 Consequences
- •14.2 Noisy Stripes
- •14.2.1 Spatio-Temporal Noise Spectra
- •14.2.2 Stochastic Drifts
- •14.2.3 Consequences
- •References
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5.A power-law temperature dependence of the lifetime of a locally stable stripe pattern (corresponding to a local potential minimum).
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