Symmetry breaking in laser cavities
Optics
2015-04-30 v1 Quantum Gases
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
A brief introduction to the topic of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in conservative and dissipative nonlinear systems with an underlying double-well-potential structure is given. The reason is a discussion of a recent observation of the SSB a dual-core nanolaser cavity [5]. The effect is illustrated by means of a simple semi-analytically-tractable model (Fig. 1).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.07943,
title = {Symmetry breaking in laser cavities},
author = {Boris A. Malomed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07943},
year = {2015}
}