Bistability controlled by convection in a pattern-forming system

N Marsal, L Weicker, D Wolfersberger, M Sciamanna - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We analyze the transition from convective to absolute dynamical instabilities in a nonlinear
optical system forming patterns, ie, a photorefractive crystal in a single feedback …

[PDF][PDF] Conference 10228: Nonlinear Optics and Applications

A Bundulis, E Nitiss, MA Rutkis… - Clarion Congress Hotel … - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The unique properties of amorphous chalcogenides such as wide transparency in the
infrared region, low phonon energy, photosensitivity and high linear and nonlinear refractive …

Interplay between convection and bistability in a pattern forming system

N Marsal, L Weicker, D Wolfersberger… - Nonlinear Optics and …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We study numerically and experimentally the transition from convective to absolute
dynamical instabilities in an optical system composed of a bulk photorefractive crystal …