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K Staliunas

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Subdiffractive light pulses in photonic crystals.

We investigate propagation of light pulses in photonic crystals in the vicinity of the zero diffraction point. We show that Gaussian pulses due to nonzero width of their temporal spectrum spread weakly in space and time during the propagation. We also find the family of nonspreading pulses, propagating invariantly in the vicinity of the zero diffraction point of photonic crystals.

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Bistable phase control via rocking in a nonlinear electronic oscillator.

We experimentally demonstrate the effective rocking [de Valcarcel and Staliunas, Phys. Rev. E 67, 026604 (2003)] of a nonlinear electronic circuit operating in a periodic regime. Namely, we show that by driving a Chua circuit with a periodic signal, whose phase alternates (also periodically) in time, we lock the oscillation frequency of the circuit to that of the driving signal, and its phase to one of two possible values shifted by pi, and lying between the alternating phases of the input signal. In this way, we show that a rocked nonlinear oscillator displays phase bistability. We interpret the experimental results via a theoretical analysis of rocking on a simple oscillator model, based on a normal form description (complex Landau equation) of the rocked Hopf bifurcation.

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Spatial and temporal spectra of noise driven stripe patterns.

Spatial and temporal noise power spectra of stripe patterns are investigated, using as a model a Swift-Hohenberg equation with a stochastic term. In particular, the analytical and numerical investigations show: (1) the temporal noise spectra are of 1/f(alpha) form, where alpha=1+(3-D)/4 with D the spatial dimension of the system; (2) that the stochastic fluctuations of the stripe position are subdiffusive.

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Role of pump diffraction on the stability of localized structures in degenerate optical parametric oscillators.

We show that the stability range of localized structures (LS's) in the form of minimum size phase domains in degenerate optical parametric oscillators is enhanced by increasing the diffraction of the pump wave. Pump diffraction enhances spatial oscillations of decaying tails of domain boundaries, whereas spatially oscillating (weakly decaying) tails prevent the collapse of LS's, enhance their stability range, and allow the existence of more complex LS's in the form of molecules.

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Stability of localized structures in the Swift-Hohenberg equation.

We show that nonmonotonic (oscillatory) decay of the boundaries of phase domains is crucial for the stability of localized structures in systems described by Swift-Hohenberg equation. The less damped (more oscillatory) are the boundaries, the larger are the existence ranges of the localized structures. For very weakly damped spatial oscillations, higher-order localized structures are possible.

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