Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Kestutis Staliunas.
We show dissipative spatial solitons in nonlinear optical microresonators in which the refractive index is laterally modulated. In addition to "normal" and "staggered" dissipative solitons, similar to those in spatially modulated conservative systems, a narrow "midband" soliton is shown, having no counterparts in conservative systems.
We show that a self-oscillatory system, driven at two frequencies close to that of the unforced system (resonance 1:1), becomes phase locked and exhibits two equivalent stable states of opposite phases. For spatially extended systems this phase bistability results in patterns characteristic for real order parameter systems, such as phase domains, labyrinths, and phase spatial solitons. In variational cases, the phase-locking mechanism is interpreted as a result of the periodic "rocking" of the system potential. Rocking could be tested experimentally in lasers and in oscillatory chemical reactions.
Temporal periodic modulation of the interatomic s-wave scattering length in Bose-Einstein condensates is shown to excite subharmonic patterns in the atom density through a parametric resonance. The dominant wavelength of the spatial structures is primarily selected by the excitation frequency but also affected by the depth of the spatial modulation via a nonlinear resonance. These phenomena represent analogues of the Faraday patterns excited in vertically vibrated liquids.