Optical Bullet Holes: Robust Controllable Localized States of a Nonlinear Cavity
- 4 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (10) , 1623-1626
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.1623
Abstract
Stable localized states are predicted for a saturable absorber in an optical cavity. These “bullet holes” resemble 2D spatial solitons, and we demonstrate an optical memory array scheme based on them. A topological argument shows that one or more unstable localized states coexist with the stable bullet hole.Keywords
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