Modulation Instability of Incoherent Beams in Noninstantaneous Nonlinear Media
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- 17 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (3) , 467-470
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.467
Abstract
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.Keywords
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