Modulational instability, solitons and beam propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media
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We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of nonlocality on the modulational instability of plane waves, the collapse of finite-size beams, and the formation and interaction of spatial solitons.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004