Title :
Modulational instability in discrete optics
Author :
Meier, J.P. ; Stegeman, G.I. ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N. ; Silberberg, Yaron ; Yang, Hongming ; Salamo, Gregory ; Sorel, Marc ; Aitchison, J.S.
Author_Institution :
CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
We observed, for the first time, the breakup of a wide high intensity beam due to modulational instability in the normal diffraction region of a discrete optical system and its absence in the anomalous regime.
Keywords :
laser beams; light diffraction; light propagation; nonlinear optics; discrete optics; modulational instability; normal diffraction region; wide high intensity beam breakup;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
