LOCALIZED STRUCTURES AND LOCALIZED PATTERNS IN OPTICAL BISTABILITY

Citation
M. Tlidi et al., LOCALIZED STRUCTURES AND LOCALIZED PATTERNS IN OPTICAL BISTABILITY, Physical review letters, 73(5), 1994, pp. 640-643
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
73
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
640 - 643
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)73:5<640:LSALPI>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We study numerically a Swift-Hohenberg equation describing, in the wea k dispersion limit, nascent optical bistability with transverse effect s. We predict that stable localized structures, and organized clusters of them, may form in the transverse plane. These structures consist o f either kinks or dips. The number and spatial distribution of these l ocalized structures are determined by the initial conditions while the ir peak (bottom) intensity remains essentially constant for fixed valu es of the system's parameters.