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L Pastur1, U Bortolozzo, P L Ramazza
1Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Largo Enrico Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Abstract:
We describe the transition from regular patterns to space-time chaos in an optical system with nonlocal feedback. The nonlocality introduced breaks the rotational symmetry of the system, resulting in a scenario for the transition from regular patterns to a disordered dynamics. The different regimes are characterized both in terms of spatial and temporal correlation functions, and by means of a Kahrunen-Loeve decomposition. This allows the determination of the structures participating in the dynamics, and an estimation of the active degrees of freedom versus the control parameter.
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