Abstract

Turing instability leading to pattern formation in cavity nonlinear optics is generally described in terms of a tilted-wave mechanism that provides a simple geometric and linear picture of the fact that diffractive off-axis waves can fit the cavity resonance allowing maximum energy extraction from the medium [1]. In mean-field models the tilted wave mechanism is effective solely when the resonated field is blue-shifted from the nearby cavity resonance, and off-axis waves arc generally prevented on the other side of cavity resonance.

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