%0 Journal Article %1 JSTQE04 %A Assanto, G %A Peccianti, M %A Conti, C %D 2004 %J IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. %K imported myown %N 5 %P 862--869 %T One-dimensional transverse modulational instability in nonlocal media with a reorientational nonlinearity %V 10 %X Transverse modulational instability is investigated in undoped nematic liquid crystals, a highly nonlocal material system encompassing a reorientational nonlinear response. Using an elliptic Gaussian excitation, we observe the one-dimensional development of transverse patterns eventually leading to beam breakup, filamentation, and spatial solitons, both in the cases of spatially coherent and partially incoherent excitations.

@article{JSTQE04, abstract = {Transverse modulational instability is investigated in undoped nematic liquid crystals, a highly nonlocal material system encompassing a reorientational nonlinear response. Using an elliptic Gaussian excitation, we observe the one-dimensional development of transverse patterns eventually leading to beam breakup, filamentation, and spatial solitons, both in the cases of spatially coherent and partially incoherent excitations.}, added-at = {2016-08-09T20:29:14.000+0200}, author = {Assanto, G and Peccianti, M and Conti, C}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/212f6307ef39810bbab3ef41776a985b4/nonlinearxwaves}, interhash = {59b449fe8ffe6a5300a673004bd222c3}, intrahash = {12f6307ef39810bbab3ef41776a985b4}, journal = {IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.}, keywords = {imported myown}, number = 5, pages = {862--869}, timestamp = {2016-08-09T20:31:29.000+0200}, title = {One-dimensional transverse modulational instability in nonlocal media with a reorientational nonlinearity}, volume = 10, year = 2004 }