Abstract : We investigate experimentally the possibility to control the pattern formation in a nonlinear photorefractive single feedback system by using a periodic photonic lattice. By varying the lattice strength and periodicity, we can induce patterns of particular symmetry, suppress the modulational instability or spatially control the pattern.
Nicolas Marsal, Germano Montemezzani, Delphine Wolfersberger, Marc Sciamanna, Dragomir Neshev. Control of pattern formation in a single feedback system by photonic lattices. International Commission of Optics, Jul 2008, Sidney, Australia. ⟨hal-00334515⟩