Observation of modulational instability in discrete media with self-defocusing nonlinearity

Stepić, Milutin; Wirth, Christian; Rüter, Christian E.; Kip, Detlef

doi:10.1364/ol.31.000247

Observation of modulational instability in discrete media with self-defocusing nonlinearity

Publication date

2006-01

Document type

Research article

Author

Stepić, Milutin

Wirth, Christian

Rüter, Christian E.

Kip, Detlef

Organisational unit

Technische Universität Clausthal

DOI

10.1364/ol.31.000247

URI

https://openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de/handle/10.24405/14035

Pubmed ID

16441045

Publisher

Soc.

Series or journal

Optics letters

ISSN

0146-9592

Periodical volume

31

Periodical issue

2

First page

247

Last page

249

Part of the university bibliography

Nein

Language

English

Abstract

We report what we believe is the first observation of modulation instability in the anomalous-diffraction regions of a photonic lattice. The experiments were carried out in a 1D waveguide array fabricated in a lithium niobate crystal displaying the photovoltaic self-defocusing nonlinearity, and our results are confirmed numerically by simulating the nonlinear beam propagation.

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