Transverse Patterns in Nonlinear Optical Resonators

• Main Authors: Staliunas, Kestutis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Sánchez-Morcillo, V.J (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 183
• Subjects: Condensed matter.; Quantum optics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Quantum Optics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

This book is devoted to the formation and dynamics of localized structures (vortices, solitons) and of extended patterns (stripes, hexagons, tilted waves) in nonlinear optical resonators such as lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and the like. Theoretical analysis is performed by deriving order...

Table of Contents:

• Order Parameter Equations for Lasers
• Order Parameter Equations for Other Nonlinear Resonators
• Zero Detuning: Laser Hydrodynamics and Optical Vortices
• Finite Detuning: Vortex Sheets and Vortex Lattices
• Resonators with Curved Mirrors
• The Restless Vortex
• Domains and Spatial Solitons
• Subcritical Solitons I: Saturable Absorber
• Subcritical Solitons II: Nonlinear Resonance
• Phase Domains and Phase Solitons
• Turing Patterns in Nonlinear Optics
• Three-Dimensional Patterns
• Patterns and Noise.