Instabilities and self-pulsation in a ring cavity with a photorefractive wave mixer
- 1 November 1989
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 14 (21) , 1213-1215
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.14.001213
Abstract
We find instabilities and self-pulsation in an optical ring cavity with a photorefractive two-wave mixer. The mean-field limit is used to obtain a single criterion for instabilities that originate from a Hopf bifurcation.Keywords
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