Abstract

Stationary localized structures (LS) and localized patterns have been predicted in passive resonators in regimes where the homogeneous steady states exhibit a subcritical Turing (or modulational) instability [1]. These solutions consist of bright or dark spots in the transverse profile of the intracavity field amplitude. They can be either spatially independent and randomly distributed or clusters forming well-defined spatial patterns in the transverse plane orthogonal to the propagation axis.

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