Phys. Rev. A 68, 013821 (2003) [5 pages]Traveling waves and counterpropagating bright droplets as a result of tailoring the transverse dispersion relation in a multistable optical systemSee Also: Erratum Received 11 September 2002; revised 30 April 2003; published 28 July 2003 We study a diffusive, multistable optical system with nonlocal nonlinearity where the transverse dispersion relations of traveling waves emerging from uniform states are modified by filtering the spatial frequencies. We investigate how the spatial cutoff frequency has strong effects on the position and nature of the primary bifurcation leading to traveling waves and enable the observation of secondary bifurcations of the traveling waves to a great variety of blinking and traveling bright droplets. We give an overview of the properties of waves and droplets. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.013821
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.013821
PACS:
42.65.Sf, 42.65.Pc, 45.70.Qj, 82.40.Bj
See AlsoErratum: S. Rankin, E. Yao, and F. Papoff, Erratum: Traveling waves and counterpropagating bright droplets as a result of tailoring the transverse dispersion relation in a multistable optical system [Phys. Rev. A 68, 013821 (2003)], Phys. Rev. A 71, 039903 (2005). |
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