(1+1)-Dimensional modulation instability of spatially incoherent light
JOSA B, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 502-512 (2002)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.19.000502
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Abstract
We present a comprehensive study of the one-dimensional modulation instability of partially spatially incoherent light in noninstantaneous self-focusing media. For this instability to occur, the nonlinearity has to exceed a specific threshold that depends on the coherence properties of the beam. Above this threshold a uniform-intensity partially spatially coherent wave front becomes unstable and breaks up into periodic trains of one-dimensional stripes.
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OCIS Codes
(190.5530) Nonlinear optics : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
(190.5940) Nonlinear optics : Self-action effects
Citation
Detlef Kip, Marin Soljačić, Mordechai Segev, Suzanne M. Sears, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides, "(1+1)-Dimensional modulation instability of spatially incoherent light," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 502-512 (2002)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-19-3-502
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