Modulation instability of incoherent beams in noninstantaneous nonlinear media

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 467-470

  Soljacic, Marin ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^b,c   Coskun, Tamer ^d   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^d   Vishwanath, Ashvin ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d Lehigh University   (United States)

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EID: 0346876660     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.467     Document Type: Article

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