Abstract
It is shown that symmetry breaking of light counterpropagation through a system of two thin films of a resonance medium may lead to nonreciprocal transverse optical patterns in the form of positive hexagons for one direction of propagation, and in the form of negative hexagons for the opposite. Analogies with the period-2 Ikeda instability and the polarization symmetry breaking are discussed. Results may be relevant to other pattern-forming systems undergoing a pitchfork bifurcation of the homogeneous static mode.
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