From nearly tilted waves to cavity phase solitons in broad area lasers with squeezed vacuum

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Apr 23;92(16):163901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.163901. Epub 2004 Apr 23.

Abstract

Phase domains and phase solitons in two-level amplifying media damped by a squeezed vacuum are predicted for the first time. Two different types of pattern formation are found depending on the relative value of the cavity detuning to the squeezed parameter: the usual one in lasers via a supercritical Hopf bifurcation and a new one via pitchfork bifurcation.