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  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1988),
  • paper MP67

DISPERSION-RELATED INSTABILITY OF NONLINEAR COUNTERPROPAGATING WAVES

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Abstract

It has recently been demonstrated [1] that counter-propagating laser beams in a third-order nonlinear medium can exhibit instability and chaotic temporal behavior if the intensity-dependent component of refractive index has finite relaxation time. In this report, we demonstrate that regular linear dispersion (i.e. frequency dependence of linear refractive index) can be a natural and universal agent (instead of relaxation [1]) for amplification of perturbation in the system and eventually for possible instability.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

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