Spatial solitary waves and patterns in type II second-harmonic generation.
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 23 (5) , 346-8
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.23.000346
Abstract
The existence of Turing patterns and of spatial solitary waves that arise from a polarization instability of the fundamental field is predicted in type II second-harmonic generation in a quadratically nonlinear optical cavity. The analogy between these dissipative structures and those studied in absorptive optical bistability is pointed out.Keywords
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