Abstract

We analyze analytically and numerically the mechanism for modulational instability of the resonance excitation of a space-charge field by a moving light pattern in a photorefractive sillenite crystal to explain the results of recent experiments with Bi12SiO20 crystals.

© 1999 Optical Society of America

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