Spontaneous pattern formation upon incoherent waves: From modulation-instability to steady-state

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7818-7831

  Levi, Liad ^a   Schwartz, Tal ^a   Manela, Ofer ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Buljan, Hrvoje ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DEGREE OF COHERENCE; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; LONG-RANGE PROPAGATION; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPONTANEOUS PATTERN FORMATION; STEADY STATE PROPERTIES; TEMPORAL AVERAGING;

MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 44649133198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007818     Document Type: Article

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