Abstract
We show that modulation-type instability can occur in the normal dispersion regime of a dielectric medium for the case of a relaxing self-focusing nonlinearity. This instability leads to the generation of pulse trains with almost no pedestal when periodic boundary conditions are applied.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2489-2491 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 20 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1991 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)