Hoyuelos Miguel, dell'Erba Matías
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 Dec;68(6 Pt 2):065604. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.065604. Epub 2003 Dec 17.
The consequences of introducing the polarization degree of freedom of the light are studied for the transverse patterns of a laser with detuning equal to zero. We deduce the vectorial Swift-Hohenberg amplitude equation from the corresponding Maxwell-Bloch equations. The vectorial character of the equation introduces modifications in the stability of traveling waves and new types of localized structures.