• DocumentCode
    2791455
  • Title

    Spontaneous pattern formation upon incoherent waves: From modulation-instability to dynamic equilibrium

  • Author

    Levi, Liad ; Schwartz, Tal ; Manela, Ofer ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We study long-range propagation of spatially-incoherent light in non-instantaneous nonlinearities, and show that the system eventually reaches dynamic equilibrium, which depends only on the initial coherence, and not on the strength of the nonlinearity.
  • Keywords
    Chaos; Dynamic equilibrium; Entropy; Modulation coding; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical propagation; Pattern formation; Physics; Solid state circuits;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431581
  • Filename
    4431581