On homoclinic snaking in optical systems

W. J. Firth; L. Columbo; T. Maggipinto

doi:10.1063/1.2768157

On homoclinic snaking in optical systems

W. J. Firth, L. Columbo, T. Maggipinto

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Abstract

The existence of localized structures, including so-called cavity solitons, in driven optical systems is discussed. In theory, they should exist only below the threshold of a subcritical modulational instability, but in experiment they often appear spontaneously on parameter variation. The addition of a nonlocal nonlinearity may resolve this discrepancy by tilting the "snaking" bifurcation diagram characteristic of such problems. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	-
Number of pages	8
Journal	Chaos
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2768157
Publication status	Published - Sept 2007

Keywords

semiconductor microcavities
localized structures
cavity solitons
pattern-formation
microresonators
beams

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