Bilateral symmetry breaking in a nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavity exhibiting optical tristability
patt-sol
2009-10-31 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We show the existence of a region in the parameter space that defines the field dynamics in a Fabry-Perot cylindrical cavity, where three output stable stationary states of the light are possible for a given localized incident field. Two of these states do not preserve the bilateral (i.e. left-right) symmetry of the entire system. These broken-symmetry states are the high-transmission nonlinear modes of the system. We also discuss how to excite these states.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.patt-sol/9908004,
title = {Bilateral symmetry breaking in a nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavity exhibiting optical tristability},
author = {Juan P. Torres and Jack Boyce and Raymond Y. Chiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:patt-sol/9908004},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures