Two-dimensional modulational instability in photorefractive media

abstract

• We study theoretically and experimentally the modulational instability of broad optical beams in photorefractive nonlinear media. The angular dependence of the growth rate of periodic perturbations is calculated. Our findings are confirmed by experimental measurements on a strontium barium niobate photorefractive crystal.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF OPTICS B-QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

• Saffman, M., McCarthy, G., & Krolikowski, W.

citation count

• 26

complete list of authors

• Saffman, M||McCarthy, G||Krolikowski, W

publication date

• May 2004

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Journal of optics. B, Quantum and semiclassical optics : journal of the European Optical Society  Journal

keywords

• Instabilities
• Photorefractive Nonlinear Optics
• Self-focusing

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/1464-4266/6/5/030

start page

• S397

end page

• S403

volume

• 6

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1464-4266/6/5/030