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Complex pattern formation or destruction is commonly observed in spatially extended, continuous, dissipative systems, such as convection in ordinary and binary mixture fluids and in liquid crystals, Taylor-Coullet flow, chemical reaction, and directional solidification, etc. [NPL]. Rayleigh-Benard convection has been a canonical system in developing and testing ideas for understanding patterns and transitions [NPL]. Lasers provide another physically and mathematically convenient system for studying space-time complexity, such as pattern selection and spatio-temporal chaos, widely observed in hydrodynamic systems. In this article, we will illustrate, using the two-level and Raman single, longitudinal-mode lasers as prototype systems, the rich variety of pattern-forming instability mechanisms that may appear in wide-aperture lasers.
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Feng, Q., Indik, R., Lega, J., Moloney, J.V., Newell, A.C., Staley, M. (1998). Transverse Traveling-Wave Patterns and Instabilities in Lasers. In: Vorontsov, M.A., Miller, W.B. (eds) Self-Organization in Optical Systems and Applications in Information Technology. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60315-0_6
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