Abstract

We report our recent results on the pattern formation in nonlinear optical systems in presence of additive (quantum) noise. We show: 1) that the patterns progressively emerge from noise by approaching the pattern formation threshold from below; 2) that the patterns show Bose-Einsteinlike distributions of the far field above the patterns forming threshold. 3) that the temporal power spectra of optical patterns is of 1/f^a form in the presence of the additive noise.

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