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Pattern formation in a cavity longer than the coherence length of the light in it
Tal Carmon1, Marin Soljacić, Mordechai Segev
1Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Physical Review Letters
|October 26, 2002
Abstract:
We study, theoretically and experimentally, the evolution of patterns in a passive nonlinear cavity that is longer than the coherence length of the light circulating in it. The patterns exhibit spatial line narrowing as the feedback is increased, resembling the line narrowing in lasers.