Self-organized patterns and spatial solitons in liquid-crystal microcavities
Journal Article
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· Physical Review. A
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ (United Kingdom)
Single-mode microcavities filled with liquid crystals are predominantly nonlinear refractive optical elements. Pumped by lasers tuned above the filled cavity resonance frequency, we show that the phenomena of bistability, spatial pattern formation, and 'optical bullet holes' appear even in a single-mode microcavity configuration. The solitons have an unexpected dark spatial profile and appear only beyond the bistability threshold.
- OSTI ID:
- 20632380
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 66; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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