We consider a nonlinear, passive optical system contained in an appropriate cavity, and driven by a coherent, plane-wave, stationary beam. Under suitable conditions, diffraction gives rise to an instability which leads to the emergence of a stationary spatial dissipative structure in the transverse profile of the transmitted beam.
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