%0 Journal Article %A Gómez Calderón, Óscar %A Cabrera Granado, Eduardo %A Antón Revilla, Miguel Ángel %A Gonzalo Fonrodona, Isabel %A Carreño Sánchez, Fernando %A Guerra, J. M. %T From nearly tilted waves to cavity phase solitons in broad area lasers with squeezed vacuum %D 2004 %@ 0031-9007 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51360 %X Phase domains and phase solitons in two-level amplifying media damped by a squeezed vacuum are predicted for the first time. Two different types of pattern formation are found depending on the relative value of the cavity detuning to the squeezed parameter: the usual one in lasers via a supercritical Hopf bifurcation and a new one via pitchfork bifurcation. %~