Abstract
It has recently been demonstrated [1] that counter-propagating laser beams in a third-order nonlinear medium can exhibit instability and chaotic temporal behavior if the intensity-dependent component of refractive index has finite relaxation time. In this report, we demonstrate that regular linear dispersion (i.e. frequency dependence of linear refractive index) can be a natural and universal agent (instead of relaxation [1]) for amplification of perturbation in the system and eventually for possible instability.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
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