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AUTHOR
Victor B. Taranenko
Experimental approach to transverse wave-number selection in cavity nonlinear optics
Spontaneous transverse pattern formation is experimentally studied in a ${\text{BaTiO}}_{3}$ photorefractive oscillator under degenerate four-wave mixing conditions. A near self-imaging resonator of high Fresnel number and quasi-one-dimensional in the transverse plane is used. A fine control technique of the cavity detuning, $\ensuremath{\Omega}$, is described. It allows a precise study of the relation of $\ensuremath{\Omega}$ with the transverse wave number ${k}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ of the roll patterns selected by the system. The law ${k}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}^{2}=\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\Omega}∕a$ is verified, which evidences that wave-number selection is mainly dictated by the cavity …
Hysteretic nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition
We show that a parametrically driven cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation exhibits a hysteretic nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition for large enough quintic nonlinearity. These results help to understand the recent experimental observation of this pheomenon [A. Esteban-Martin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223903 (2005)].
Controlled Observation of a Nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch Transition in a Nonlinear Optical Cavity
We describe the controlled observation of the nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition in a broad area nonlinear optical cavity, namely, a quasi-1D single longitudinal-mode photorefractive oscilator in a degenerate four-wave mixing configuration. Our experimental technique allows for the controlled injection of the domain walls. We use cavity detuning as control parameter and find that both Ising and Bloch walls can exist for the same detuning values within a certain interval of detunings, i.e., the Ising-Bloch transition is hysteretic in our case. A complex Ginzburg-Landau model is used for supporting the observations.
Four-phase patterns in a forced nonlinear optical oscillator
We present preliminary theoretical and experimental results indicating that a high Fresnel number nonlinear optical oscillator with planar mirrors can display four-phase multistability, eventually leading to four-phase patterns. Such situation is similar to that emerging in extended oscillatory systems forced within a 4:1 resonance and, to the best of our knowledge, has not been predicted nor observed previously in an optical system.
Control and steering of phase domain walls
We show experimentally the feasibility of optically controlled location, individual addressing/erasure and steering of phase domain walls by injection of coherent addressing pulses into a phase-locked four-wave-mixing photorefractive oscillator.
Bistable phase locking of a nonlinear optical cavity via rocking: Transmuting vortices into phase patterns.
We report experimental observation of the conversion of a phase-invariant nonlinear system into a phase-locked one via the mechanism of rocking [G. J. de Valcarcel and K. Staliunas, Phys. Rev. E 67, 026604 (2003)]. This conversion results in that vortices of the phase-invariant system are being replaced by phase patterns such as domain walls. The experiment is carried out on a photorefractive oscillator in two-wave mixing configuration.A model for the experimental device is given that reproduces the observed behavior.