E Benkler et al 2000 J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 2 303 doi:10.1088/1464-4258/2/4/311
Noninvasive experimental control of beam profiles in nonlinear optics
E Benkler, M Kreuzer, R Neubecker and T Tschudi
Show affiliationsA self-regulating method for the control of spontaneous instabilities of the transversal beam profile in nonlinear optical systems is experimentally realized. The control method is the high-dimensional analogue of classical negative feedback regulators. An all-optical implementation with its capabilities of parallel processing is essential for the experimental feasibility. Unstable system-inherent transversal patterns are stabilized, including also the stationary homogeneous state. Even spatio-temporal disorder is removed in favour of the highly symmetric, stationary patterns and nearly without losses of output power. The manipulation of the output state is demonstrated to be noninvasive. This allows investigations of the otherwise inaccessible unstable patterns, for which an example is given.
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Issue 4 (July 2000)
Received 14 December 1999, in final form 27 March 2000
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Noninvasive experimental control of beam profiles in nonlinear optics
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