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Stable droplets and nucleation in asymmetric bistable nonlinear optical systems

D. Gomila; P. Colet; G.-L. Oppo; M. San Miguel
Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 6, S265-S270 (2004)

The existence and stability properties of localized structures in nonlinear optical cavities with slightly non-equivalent homogeneous solutions and displaying a modulational instability of flat fronts are investigated. We present a new type of stable localized structures in the regime of formation of labyrinthine patterns based on the balance between the curvature and the asymmetry effects.