Noise-seeded spatiotemporal modulation instability in normal dispersion

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2004 Dec;70(6 Pt 2):065603. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.065603. Epub 2004 Dec 22.

Abstract

In optical second-harmonic generation with normal dispersion, the virtually infinite bandwidth of the unbounded, hyperbolic, modulational instability leads to quenching of spatial multisoliton formation and to the occurrence of a catastrophic spatiotemporal breakup when an extended beam is left to interact with an extremely weak external noise with a coherence time much shorter than that of the pump.