Abstract
We present a theory describing propagation of spatially and temporally incoherent light in non-instantaneous nonlinear media, and demonstrate the existence of modulation instability of ”white” light. We find that modulation instability of ”white” light is fundamentally a collective effect, where all the temporal frequencies participate in the formation of a pattern, and self-adjust their respective contributions.
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