Numéro
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 49, Numéro C2, Juin 1988
Optical Bistability - IV
Page(s) C2-343 - C2-348
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1988281
Optical Bistability - IV

J. Phys. Colloques 49 (1988) C2-343-C2-348

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:1988281

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INSTABILITIES IN PASSIVE OPTICAL SYSTEMS

L.A. LUGIATO1, C. OLDANO1, Kaige WANG2, L. SANTIRANA1, L.M. NARDUCCI3, F. PRATI4 et M. BRAMBILLA4

1  Dipartimento di Fisica del Politecnico, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy
2  Department of Physics, Normal University, Beijing, China
3  Department of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, U.S.A.
4  Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Via Celoria 16, I-10133 Milano, Italy


Abstract
We focus on some of the main instabilities which arise in the framework of the full set of Maxwell-Bloch equations. We review some theoretical and experimental results which concern the spontaneous onset of self-oscillatory behaviour, or of stationary spatial patterns, in passive optical systems.