Pattern-dislocation-type dynamical instability in 1D optical feedback Kerr media with Gaussian transverse pumping.
We study experimentally and numerically the secondary instability corresponding to the destabilization of stationary transverse roll patterns appearing in a 1D liquid crystal layer subjected to optical feedback. This dynamical instability appears as roll dislocations in the spatiotemporal diagrams. We show that it originates from the Gaussian spatial transverse dependence of a control parameter and that its corresponding mechanism is the selection of a local unstable wave number. This instability is the optical counterpart of the ramp-induced Eckhaus instability observed in hydrodynamics.
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Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, UMR 8523, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.