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(1+1)-Dimensional modulation instability of spatially incoherent light

Detlef Kip, Marin Soljačić, Mordechai Segev, Suzanne M. Sears, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

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Abstract

We present a comprehensive study of the one-dimensional modulation instability of partially spatially incoherent light in noninstantaneous self-focusing media. For this instability to occur, the nonlinearity has to exceed a specific threshold that depends on the coherence properties of the beam. Above this threshold a uniform-intensity partially spatially coherent wave front becomes unstable and breaks up into periodic trains of one-dimensional stripes.

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