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From nearly tilted waves to cavity phase solitons in broad area lasers with squeezed vacuum
Oscar G Calderón1, Eduardo Cabrera, M A Antón
1Departamento de Optica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. oscargc@opt.ucm.es
Physical Review Letters
|June 1, 2004
Abstract:
Phase domains and phase solitons in two-level amplifying media damped by a squeezed vacuum are predicted for the first time. Two different types of pattern formation are found depending on the relative value of the cavity detuning to the squeezed parameter: the usual one in lasers via a supercritical Hopf bifurcation and a new one via pitchfork bifurcation.

