Coarsening in a bistable system with long-delayed feedback

The correspondence between long-delayed systems and one-dimensional spatially extended media enables a direct interpretation of purely temporal phenomena in terms of spatio- temporal patterns. On the basis of this result, we provide the evidence of a characteristic spatio- temporal dynamics —coarsening— in a long-delayed bistable system. Nucleation, propagation and annihilation of fronts, leading eventually to a single phase, are observed in an experiment based on a laser with opto-electronic feedback. A numerical and analytical study of a general phenomenological model is also performed and compared with the experimental findings. Copyright c EPLA, 2012

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