Abstract
Modulation instability and pattern formation in spatially incoherent light beams is experimentally demonstrated, and we show that patterns, such as 2D self-ordered arrays of light spots, can form spontaneously from noise. This is a universal phenomena that relates to other nonlinear systems of weakly-correlated particles, such as Bose-Einstein condensates and semiconductors near the quantum Hall regime.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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