Abstract
The modulational stability properties of plane waves in nonlinear media with a general nonlocal Kerr nonlinearity were studied. An analytical expression was derived for the growth rate of the instability for arbitrary response profiles. It was found that in the self-focusing case, the plane wave solution is always unstable.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 016612 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physical Review E |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2001 |