Soliton transverse instabilities in anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media
Date
2003-08-14
Authors
Motzek, Kristian
Kaiser, Friedemann
Chu, Wen-Hen
Shih, Ming-Feng
Kivshar, Yuri
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Optical Society of America
Abstract
We study, both theoretically and experimentally, the transverse modulational
instability of spatial stripe solitons in anisotropic nonlocal photorefractive
media. We demonstrate that the instability scenarios depend strongly on the
stripe orientation, but the anisotropy-induced features are largely suppressed
for spatial solitons created by self-trapping of partially incoherent light.
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Keywords: Anisotropy; Coherent light; Electric field effects; Light modulation; Light propagation; Nonlinear optics; Optical Kerr effect; Photorefractive materials; Anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media; Photorefractive nonlinearity; Spatial stripe solitons; Sol
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Optics Letters
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