Abstract

Transverse effects in nonlinear ring-cavity systems have been extensively analysed from 1982 by Moloney and co-workers.^[1] Analytical investigations with diffractive coupling in one transverse dimension have demonstrated that static and dynamic transverse structures occur in this system. Extension of the mean-field model developed from optical bistability to include diffraction¹²¹ independently demonstrated qualitatively similar features, again in one transverse dimension.

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