Absolute instability and pattern formation in cold atomic vapors

G.A. Muradyan; Y. Wang; W. Williams; M. Saffman

doi:10.1364/NLGW.2005.ThB29

Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2005),
paper ThB29
•https://doi.org/10.1364/NLGW.2005.ThB29

Absolute instability and pattern formation in cold atomic vapors

G.A. Muradyan, Y. Wang, W. Williams, and M. Saffman

Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications 2005

Dresden Germany
6–9 September 2005
ISBN: 1-55752-791-1

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G. A. Muradyan, Y. Wang, W. Williams, and M. Saffman, "Absolute instability and pattern formation in cold atomic vapors," in Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2005), paper ThB29.

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Abstract

We calculate the threshold for transverse instability of counterpropagating beams in a cold atomic vapor. Redistribution of the atomic density lowers the threshold for instability for self-focusing, and raises it for self-defocusing.

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