Progress in Optics 
Subtitle: Volume XXXV (Progress in Optics)
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: June 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780444823090
First sentence: Spontaneous symmetry breaking that results in the formation of light patterns in transversely homogeneous nonlinear optical systems has attracted the attention of investigators for about three decades.