Transverse Patterns in Nonlinear Optical Resonators
Publisher: SPRINGER
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9783540004349
Subjects: Technology & Industrial Arts; Science; Resonators; Lasers; Optical resonance
First sentence: Pattern formation, i.e. the spontaneous emergence of spatial order, is a widespread phenomenon in nature, and also in laboratory experiments.
Description: This book is devoted to the formation and dynamics of localized structures (vortices, solitons) and of extended patterns (stripes, hexagons, tilted waves) in nonlinear optical resonators such as lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and the like. Theoretical analysis is performed by deriving order parameter equations, and also through numerical integration of microscopic models of the systems under investigation. Experimental observations, and possible technological implementations of transverse optical patterns are also discussed. A comparison with patterns found in other nonlinear systems, both optical systems and extended systems in general, is given.