Modulation Instability of Incoherent Beams in Noninstantaneous Nonlinear Media
Abstract
We show that modulation instability can exist with partially spatially incoherent light beams in a noninstantaneous nonlinear environment. For such incoherent modulation instability to occur, the value of the nonlinearity has to exceed a threshold imposed by the degree of spatial coherence.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.467
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhRvL..84..467S