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Two dimensional modulational instability in photorefractive media
We study theoretically and experimentally the modulational instability of
broad optical beams in photorefractive nonlinear media. We demonstrate the
impact of the anisotropy of the nonlinearity on the growth rate of periodic
perturbations. Our findings are confirmed by experimental measurements in a
strontium barium niobate photorefractive crystal.Comment: 8 figure
Quantitative measurement of the vibrational amplitude and phase in photorefractive time-average interferometry: A comparison with electronic speckle pattern interferometry
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