Pattern formation in a passive incoherent ring resonator system based on nonlinear material with the self-focusing non-instantaneous Kerr response

Abstract

We have analyzed the pattern formation in a nonlinear medium with self-focusing non-instantaneous Kerr response by employing the passive incoherent ring resonator system. In such a system, coherence time of the light is much shorter than the time of one round trip in the resonator. This delayed response of the nonlinearity can amplify the noise of certain spatial frequencies of the perturbed wave field and thus patterns can form when nonlinear gain (i.e., amplification of the noises) overcomes the loss (i.e., a well defined cavity threshold set by the coherence properties) in a single pass. The expression for the spatial spectral density of the perturbed wave field, which is the characteristic parameters of the pattern formation, have been derived in the case of lowest order approximation. It is found that for a specific value of the spatial frequency of the perturbed wave field, the intensity feedback of the cavity is much effective factor rather than the crystal thickness of the nonlinear media and amplitude of the incoming beam in the cavity for the enhancement of the spatial spectral density of the intensity pattern, which greatly improved the performance and applications of the pattern formation such as information processing, symmetry-breaking, and dynamics in non-equilibrium systems.