Modulation instability of incoherent beams in noninstantaneous nonlinear media

被引：204

作者：

Soljacic, M ^{[1
]}

Segev, M

Coskun, T

Christodoulides, DN

Vishwanath, A

机构：

[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[2] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

[3] Princeton Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[4] Lehigh Univ, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2000年 / 84卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.467

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We show that modulation instability can exist with partially spatially incoherent light beams in a noninstantaneous nonlinear environment. For such incoherent modulation instability to occur, the value of the nonlinearity has to exceed a threshold imposed by the degree of spatial coherence.

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页码：467 / 470

页数：4

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