Optical beam instabilities in nonlinear nanosuspensions

We investigate the modulation instability of plane waves and the transverse instabilities of soliton stripe beams propagating in nonlinear nanosuspensions. We show that in these systems the process of modulational instability depends on the input beam conditions. On the other hand, the transverse in...

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Published in:Optics letters 2007-11, Vol.32 (21), p.3185-3187
Main Authors: EL-GANAINY, R, CHRISTODOULIDES, D. N, MUSSLIMANI, Ziad H, ROTSCHILD, C, SEGEV, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems
optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Nonlinear optics
Optical solitons
nonlinear guided waves
Optics
Physics
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Summary:We investigate the modulation instability of plane waves and the transverse instabilities of soliton stripe beams propagating in nonlinear nanosuspensions. We show that in these systems the process of modulational instability depends on the input beam conditions. On the other hand, the transverse instability of soliton stripes can exhibit new features as a result of 1D collapse caused by the exponential nonlinearity.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.32.003185