• DocumentCode
    2795019
  • Title

    Wave kinetic instabilities in nonlinear, statistical optics

  • Author

    Dylov, Dmitry V. ; Fleischer, Jason W.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544 USA
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate wave-kinetic instabilities in the nonlinear coupling of two partially-coherent beams. We report pure momentum-space energy transfer, without intensity modulations, below the (joint) MI threshold and full {x,k} phase space dynamics above it.
  • Keywords
    Chaos; Energy exchange; Intensity modulation; Kinetic theory; Laser beams; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical modulation; Photorefractive effect;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431798
  • Filename
    4431798