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Fractal optics and beyond

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Fractals, shapes comprised of self-similar parts, are not merely prescribed linear structures. A wide class of fractals can also arise from the rich dynamics inherent to nonlinear optics.

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Figure 1: Many examples of fractal structures, such as the Romanescu broccoli displayed here, can be found in nature.

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  1. Mordechai Segev is in the Physics Department at Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel,

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  2. Marin Soljačić is in the Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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  3. John Dudley is at Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR 6174 CNRS Université de Franche-Comté, 25000 Besancon, France,

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