Spatial Hysteresis and Optical Patterns

The book is devoted to the study of optical patterns and to optical bistability and hysteresis. In its methodology it is at the intersection of investigations in synergetics and modern nonlinear optics. This first monograph on optical patterns addresses r

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Springer Series in Synergetics hup://www.springer.de/phys/books/sssyn Series Editor Hermann Haken Institut fiir Theoretische Physik und Synergetik der Universitat Stuttgart 70550 Stuttgart, Germany

and Center for Complex Systems Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA

Advisory Board Ake Andersson

Peter Schuster

Royal Institute of Technology Department of Infrastructure and Planning (RP) 10044 Stockholm, Sweden

Institut fUr Theoretische Chemie und Molekulare Strukturbiologie der Universitat Wien Wahringerstrasse 17 1090 Wien, Austria

Bemold Fiedler Freie Universitat Berlin Institut fiir Mathematik I Arnimallee 2-6 14195 Berlin, Germany

Yoshiki Kuramoto Department of Physics Graduate School of Sciences Kyoto University Kyoto 606-8592, Japan

Luigi Lugiato Dipartimento di Fisica Universita degli Studi di Milano Via Celoria 16 20133 Milan, Italy

Jiirgen Parisi Fachbereich Physik Abt. Energie- und Halbleiterforschung Universitat Oldenburg 26111 Oldenburg, Germany

Didier Somette Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Science 3845 Slichter Hall, Box 951567 595 East Circle Drive University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Manuel G. Velarde Instituto Pluridisciplinar (USM) Pas eo Juan XXIII, NO.1 28040 Madrid, Spain

Nikolay N. Rosanov

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Professor Nikolay N. Rosanov Research Center "Vavilov State Optical Institute" Research Institute for Laser Physics 12, Birzhevaya Liniya 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rosanov, Nikolay N. Spatial hysteresis and optical patterns/Nikolay N. Rosanov. p.cm. - (Springer series in synergetics, ISSN 0712-7389) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-662-04792-7 (eBook) ISBN 978-3-642-07672-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-04792-7

Optical bistability. 2. Hysteresis. I. Title. II. Series. QC446.3.065 R67 2002 535'.2-dc21 2001055104

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ISSN 0172-7389

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