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Modulation instability of incoherent beams in noninstantaneous nonlinear media
1Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Abstract:
We show that modulation instability can exist with partially spatially incoherent light beams in a noninstantaneous nonlinear environment. For such incoherent modulation instability to occur, the value of the nonlinearity has to exceed a threshold imposed by the degree of spatial coherence.
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