Abstract
The interaction of pattern formation with an intrinsic polarization instability is studied in a modified single feedback mirror experiment. We report on hexagonal patterns in an inversion symmetric system which occur due to a symmetry-breaking polarization instability and on domain patterns which are stabilized by the modulational instability. For parameter values for which no symmetry breaking bifurcation occurs, we observe rhombic and triangular patterns.
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