Abstract
The spatiotemporal dynamics of a system of two thin films possessing a resonance nonlinearity and irradiated on both sides with spatially uniform monochromatic light with the same intensity is investigated. The conditions under which bistability and symmetry breaking occur in the system are obtained. It is shown that self-pulsations can arise in the system as a result of the retardation of the light between the films, if the aperture of the incident beam is sufficiently small, and the dynamical regimes arising in the process are investigated numerically. As the beam aperture increases, the pulsations break down and a stationary spatially nonuniform field distribution is established. The transverse structures arising in this case are studied, and the relation between the symmetry breaking, bistability, self-pulsations, and spatial structures in the system investigated is established.
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