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Pulsating and rotating spirals in a delayed feedback diffractive nonlinear optical system

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2021-10-11 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study spiral waves in a mathematical model of a nonlinear optical system with a feedback loop. Starting from a delayed scalar diffusion equation in a thin annulus with oblique derivative boundary conditions, we shrink the annulus and derive the limiting equation on a circle. Based on the explicitly constructed normal form of the Hopf bifurcation for the one-dimensional delayed scalar diffusion equation, we make predictions about the existence and stability of two-dimensional spirals that we verify in direct numerical simulations, observing pulsating and rotating spiral waves.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02796,
  title  = {Pulsating and rotating spirals in a delayed feedback diffractive nonlinear optical system},
  author = {Stanislav Budzinskiy and Alexander Razgulin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02796},
  year   = {2021}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures

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