Spatial patterns in nascent optical bistability

Abstract We study analytically and numerically the solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation describing nascent optical bistability in the weak dispersion regime for one and two transverse dimensions. We show the existence of periodic and localized structures, their coexistence and their defects.

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