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Hexagons and Squares in a Passive Nonlinear Optical System

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Hexagons and Squares in a Passive Nonlinear Optical System

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Geddes, John B.
Indik, R. A.
Moloney, J. V.
Firth, Willie J.

Description

Pattern formation is analyzed and simulated in a nonlinear optical system involving all three space dimensions as well as time in an essential way. This system, counterpropagation in a Kerr medium, is shown to lose stability, for sufficient pump intensity, to a nonuniform spatial pattern. We observe hexagonal patterns in a self-focusing medium, and squares in a self-defocusing one, in good agreement with analysis based on symmetry and asymptotic expansions.

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2018-03-26 15:13:48

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