Published December 1, 2004 | Version public
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Pattern formation in a ring cavity with temporally incoherent feedback

Abstract

We present a theoretical and experimental study of modulation instability and pattern formation in a passive nonlinear optical cavity that is longer than the coherence length of the light circulating in it. Pattern formation in this cavity exhibits various features of a second-order phase transition, closely resembling laser action.

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© 2004 Optical Society of America Received January 14, 2004; revised manuscript received May 8, 2004; accepted July 12, 2004 This research was partially supported by the German–Israeli Deutsche–Israelische–Projektkooperation program, by the Israeli Science Foundation and by the U.S.–Israel Binational Science Foundation.

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