Modulational instability in nonlocal Kerr media

Ole Bang, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Jens Juul Rasmussen, John Wyller

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    Abstract

    We study the modulational instability of the plane wave solutions to nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We show that nonlocality suppresses the instability in case of self-focusing nonlinearity while it has much weaker effect in the self-defoeusing medium.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalOptics Infobase Conference Papers
    Pages (from-to)161-163
    ISSN2162-2701
    Publication statusPublished - 2001

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