A. A. Afanas'ev, V. M. Volkov, “On the spectral–spatial instability of a light wave in a medium with cubic nonlinearity”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2003, Volume 33, Number 11,Pages <nobr>987

Nonlinear optical phenomena

On the spectral–spatial instability of a light wave in a medium with cubic nonlinearity

A. A. Afanas'ev^a, V. M. Volkov^b

^a B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk
^b Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk

Abstract: Based on the analysis of frequency-nondegenerate four-photon parametric scattering, the spectral-angular dependences of the increments of perturbing modes are obtained in the field of an intense light wave propagating in a medium with cubic nonlinearity.

PACS: 42.65.Lm, 42.65.Sf

Received: 20.01.2003