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View SchemaX-wave mediated instability of plane waves in Kerr media
| Authors | C. Conti |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0302053 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0302053 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.016606 |
Abstract
Plane waves in Kerr media spontaneously generate paraxial X-waves (i.e. non-dispersive and non-diffractive pulsed beams) that get amplified along propagation. This effect can be considered a form of conical emission (i.e. spatio-temporal modulational instability), and can be used as a key for the interpretation of the out of axis energy emission in the splitting process of focused pulses in normally dispersive materials. A new class of spatio-temporal localized wave patterns is identified. X-waves instability, and nonlinear X-waves, are also expected in periodical Bose condensed gases.
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