Modulational Instability in a Layered Kerr Medium: Theory and Experiment
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Modulational instability in a layered Kerr medium: theory and experiment.
We present the first experimental investigation of modulational instability in a layered Kerr medium. The particularly interesting and appealing feature of our configuration, consisting of alternating glass-air layers, is the piecewise-constant nature of the material properties, which allows a theoretical linear stability analysis leading to a Kronig-Penney equation whose forbidden bands corres...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.234101