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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Non-Gaussian statistics and extreme waves in a nonlinear optical cavity
A Montina1, U Bortolozzo, S Residori
1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
Abstract:
A unidirectional optical oscillator is built by using a liquid crystal light valve that couples a pump beam with the modes of a nearly spherical cavity. For sufficiently high pump intensity, the cavity field presents complex spatiotemporal dynamics, accompanied by the emission of extreme waves and large deviations from the Gaussian statistics. We identify a mechanism of spatial symmetry breaking, due to a hypercycle-type amplification through the nonlocal coupling of the cavity field.
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