Experimental observation of discrete modulational instability

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Meier, J ^a   Stegeman, G I ^a   Christodoulides, D N ^a   Silberberg, Y ^b   Morandotti, R ^c   Yang, H ^d   Salamo, G ^d   Sorel, M ^e   Aitchison, J S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SENSORS; STABILITY;

MODULATION INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR ARRAY; SELF-LOCALIZATION;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 2942533016     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.163902     Document Type: Article

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