Abstract
Continuous-wave and oscillatory transverse instabilities are predicted for counterpropagating waves in Kerr media for both focusing and defocusing nonlinearities. Neither a cavity nor a finite response time is required. Computed Gaussian-beam results agree well with analytic plane-wave calculations that straddle Raman-Nath and Bragg regimes.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Carlo Rizza, Alessandro Ciattoni, Eugenio DelRe, and Elia Palange
Opt. Lett. 31(19) 2900-2902 (2006)
W. J. Firth, A. Fitzgerald, and C. Paré
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7(6) 1087-1097 (1990)
Govind P. Agrawal
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7(6) 1072-1078 (1990)