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Modulational Instability and Photon Landau Damping of Incoherent Light Wave Packets

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Abstract

Incoherent light propagation in dispersive nonlinear Kerr media is studied using a statistical description based on the Wigner transform. It is demonstrated that the incoherence leads to a linear Landau-like damping effect, which can stabilize the modulational instability.

© 2001 Optical Society of America

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