Transverse instability of energy-exchanging counterpropagating waves in photorefractive media
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Transverse instability of counterpropagating waves in photorefractive media.
The transverse instability of counterpropagating waves in nonlinear media with a photorefractive or Kerr-type nonlinearity is studied. The problem is formulated for a sluggish nonlinear medium that responds much slower than the optical frequency. In this limit, a general dispersion relation, valid for arbitrary longitudinal variation of the optical intensities, is obtained and solved numericall...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Optical Society of America B
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0740-3224,1520-8540
DOI: 10.1364/josab.11.001409