Abstract
Fully transparent nondilute polydiene solutions exhibit optical nonlinearities when irradiated by a low-power cw laser in the visible. The formation of optical spatial solitons is imaged through phase contrast microscopy. Both and modulational instabilities are evidenced as 2D and 1D arrays of linear filaments formed by beam defocusing or by using a cylindrical lens. The origin of the nonlinearity remains elusive.
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