Modulational instability of plane waves in nonlocal non-Kerr media with random diffraction and nonlinearity

E. V. Doktorov; M. A. Molchan

doi:10.1117/12.751290

17 July 2007 Modulational instability of plane waves in nonlocal non-Kerr media with random diffraction and nonlinearity

E. V. Doktorov, M. A. Molchan

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Proceedings Volume 6725, ICONO 2007: Nonlinear Space-Time Dynamics; 672513 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.751290
Event: The International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 2007, Minsk, Belarus

Abstract

The modulational instability of continuous waves in nonlocal random focusing and defocusing media with saturable nonlinearity is described. It is shown that nonlocality with a sign-definite Fourier image of the medium response function reduces significantly the growth rate peak and bandwidth of instability caused by stochasticity. Contrary, nonlocality can increase modulational instability growth rate for a response function with negative-sign bands.

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E. V. Doktorov and M. A. Molchan "Modulational instability of plane waves in nonlocal non-Kerr media with random diffraction and nonlinearity", Proc. SPIE 6725, ICONO 2007: Nonlinear Space-Time Dynamics, 672513 (17 July 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.751290

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