Domain wall dynamics in an optical Kerr cavity
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
An anisotropic (dichroic) optical cavity containing a self-focusing Kerr medium is shown to display a bifurcation between static --Ising-- and moving --Bloch-- domain walls, the so-called nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition (NIB). Bloch walls can show regular or irregular temporal behaviour, in particular, bursting and spiking. These phenomena are interpreted in terms of the spatio-temporal dynamics of the extended patterns connected by the wall, which display complex dynamical behaviour as well. Domain wall interaction, including the formation of bound states is also addressed.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0411043,
title = {Domain wall dynamics in an optical Kerr cavity},
author = {Victor J. Sanchez-Morcillo and Victor Espinosa and Isabel Perez-Arjona and Fernando Silva and German J. de Valcarcel and Eugenio Roldan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0411043},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages Tex file with 11 postscript figures. Resubmitted to Phys. Rev. E