Transverse modulational instability of (2 + 1)-dimensional cnoidal waves in media with cubic nonlinearity

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1273-1284

  Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a,b   Aleshkevich, Victor A ^a   Vysloukh, Victor A ^c   Egorov, Alexey A ^a   Zelenina, Anna S ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

CNOIDAL WAVES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0038577936     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001273     Document Type: Article

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