Second-order optical phase transition in a semilinear photorefractive oscillator with two counterpropagating pump waves

Autor: Mathey, Pierre, Jullien, Pierre, Odoulov, Serguey G., Shinkarenko, Oksana A.
Zdroj: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics; March 2002, Vol. 19 Issue: 3 p405-411, 7p
Abstrakt: Soft-mode onset of coherent oscillation is revealed in a semilinear cavity with two counterpropagating pump waves. From the dynamics of the oscillation intensity and the dynamics of the grating decay with the feedback applied, critical behavior is detected: Both the characteristic time of oscillation onset and grating decay time go to infinity exactly at the threshold coupling strength. A conclusion is made about the similarity of this type of oscillator to the second-order phase transition.
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