Experiments on induced modulational instability of an incoherent optical beam

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 271-273

  Klinger, Jill ^a   Martin, Hector ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY (MI); SPATIAL COHERENCE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0000743794     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000271     Document Type: Article

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