| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J73285/01 |
| Title: |
PATTERN FORMATIONS AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL COMPLEXITY IN OPEN FLOW OPTICAL SYSTEMS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Harrison, Professor RG |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Heriot-Watt University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1994 |
Ends: |
31 May 1997 |
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245,320
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Experimental and theoretical investigations of pattern formations and spatio-temporal complexity in optical open-flow systems - a new and challenging research area in the field of nonlinear dynamics - for both their fundamental physics and their application. Specifically we address such phenomens arising from multiwave propagation and coupling through third order nonlinearity (electro-strictive, Kerr and thermal) in guided media (fibre) with and without external feedback. Our objectives are to explore the universal nature of optical pattern formations and structures, their dynamical motion, both spontaneous and forced, the influence of weak dissipation and noise on their behaviour and the role of boundaries, feedback, diffraction and diffusion on their formation and evolution. Further, these systems provide rare opportunities to explore and test embedding principles and universal laws of dynamical systems behaviour. At an applied level this work has a central bearing on many technical aspects of fibre optics eg information processing, fibre devices and coherent optical communication.
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