Theory of Filament Formation in Self-Focusing Media
- 24 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (26) , 1929-1932
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.1929
Abstract
The instability theory for sinusoidal perturbations is extended by use of an appropriate energy-conservation criterion. This theory predicts that perturbations initially grow exponentially but can subsequently either stabilize or decay depending on their transverse size.Keywords
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