Spatial modulation instability in a Kerr slab waveguide
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 26 (23) , 1879-1881
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.26.001879
Abstract
We report the observation of noise-initiated modulational instability in AlGaAs slab waveguides at . Experiments were performed with the local, ultrafast Kerr nonlinearity at half the bandgap. The agreement between experiment and theory for the periodicity versus intensity was good.
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