Patterns, fishing and nonlinear optics.

Motivated by a conversation with my brother, a deep sea fisherman off the east coast of Scotland, I review the concepts which unify the topic of pattern formation in nonequilibrium systems. As a specific example of a pattern-forming system, I go on to examine pattern formation in nonlinear optics an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geddes, John Bruce.
Other Authors: Moloney, Jerome
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1994
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186972