Cavity pattern formation with incoherent light

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Hrvoje Buljan
• Author: Marin Soljačić
• Author: Tal Carmon
• Author: Mordechai Segev
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; (Department of Physics)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: NATURAL SCIENCES; Physics

Abstract (english)

We study the propagation dynamics of an incoherent light beam circulating in a passive cavity containing noninstantaneous nonlinear media. It is shown that patterns form in this cavity in spite of spatial incoherence of the light. We show that the pattern formation process is always associated with two consecutive thresholds. The first (instability) threshold is unaffected by the cavity boundary conditions, whereas the second threshold is induced by the feedback through the interplay of nonlinear gain and cavity loss.

• Keywords (english): optical cavity; incoherent light; nonlinearity; pattern
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Physical Review E
• Numbering: vol. 68, no. 1, 016616
• p-ISSN: 1539-3755
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.68.016616
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:826626
• Publication: 2003
• Document URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.68.016616
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Public note: Copyright (2003) by the American Physical Society.
• Created on: 2019-10-13 16:59:15