Traveling waves and counterpropagating bright droplets as a result of tailoring the transverse dispersion relation in a multistable optical system

S. Rankin, E. Yao, and F. Papoff
Phys. Rev. A 68, 013821 – Published 28 July 2003; Erratum Phys. Rev. A 71, 039903 (2005)
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Abstract

We study a diffusive, multistable optical system with nonlocal nonlinearity where the transverse dispersion relations of traveling waves emerging from uniform states are modified by filtering the spatial frequencies. We investigate how the spatial cutoff frequency has strong effects on the position and nature of the primary bifurcation leading to traveling waves and enable the observation of secondary bifurcations of the traveling waves to a great variety of blinking and traveling bright droplets. We give an overview of the properties of waves and droplets.

  • Received 11 September 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.013821

©2003 American Physical Society

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S. Rankin1, E. Yao2, and F. Papoff2

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Vol. 68, Iss. 1 — July 2003

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