Dr. William J. Firth Profile

Dr. William J. Firth

Professor at Univ of Strathclyde

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Publications (7)

Proceedings Article | 27 April 2010 Paper

Self-pulsing dynamics in a cavity soliton laser

T. Ackemann, N. Radwell, C. McIntyre, W. Firth, G.-L. Oppo

Proceedings Volume 7720, 772007 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.854039

KEYWORDS: Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, Solitons, Mode locking, Semiconductor lasers, Switching, Liquid crystals, Mirrors, Spatial solitons, Polarization, Time-frequency analysis

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Proceedings Article | 20 April 2004 Paper

Modulation instability and decay of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates into solitonic trains

Nikolay Rosanov, S. Fedorov, Yuri Rozhdestvenskii, V. Smirnov, N. Veretenov, D. Skryabin, William Firth

Proceedings Volume 5402, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.561008

KEYWORDS: Solids, Lithium, Wave propagation, Magnetism, Physics, Spatial frequencies, Chemical species, Solitons, Modulation, Scattering

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Proceedings Article | 24 June 2002 Paper

Optical patterns and nonlinear spatial structures

William Firth

Proceedings Volume 4806, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.473005

KEYWORDS: Solitons, Nonlinear optics, Complex systems, Semiconductors, Diffraction, Systems modeling, Diffusion, Mirrors, Mathematical modeling, Resonators

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Proceedings Article | 29 December 1999 Paper

Processing information with arrays of spatial solitons

William Firth

Proceedings Volume 4016, (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373659

KEYWORDS: Solitons, Switching, Spatial solitons, Semiconductors, Data processing, Microresonators, Diffraction, Optical resonators, Physics, Optoelectronics

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Proceedings Article | 22 May 1998 Paper

Spatial solitons in microresonators and their potential for information processing applications

William Firth

Proceedings Volume 3490, (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.308865

KEYWORDS: Solitons, Spatial solitons, Microresonators, Data processing, Semiconductors, Optical resonators, Optical semiconductors, Array processing, Fiber optics, Parallel processing

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Proceedings Article | 1 December 1993 Paper

Hexagon patterns and related phenomena in nonlinear optics

William Firth

Proceedings Volume 2039, (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.164773

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Chaos, Complex systems, Liquid crystals, Nonlinear optics, Feedback loops, Light valves, Optical simulations, Systems modeling, Refractive index

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