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Chinese Physics, 2001, Vol. 10(11): 1032-1036    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/10/11/308
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FILAMENTATION INSTABILITY OF LASER BEAMS IN NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIA

Wen Shuang-chun (文双春), Fan Dian-yuan (范滇元)
National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
Abstract  The filamentation instability of laser beams propagating in nonlocal nonlinear media is investigated. It is shown that the filamentation instability can occur in weakly nonlocal self-focusing media for any degree of nonlocality, and in defocusing media for the input light intensity exceeding a threshold related to the degree of nonlocality. A linear stability analysis is used to predict the initial growth rate of the instability. It is found that the nonlocality tends to suppress filamentation instability in self-focusing media and to stimulate filamentation instability in self-defocusing media. Numerical simulations confirm the results of the linear stability analysis and disclose a recurrence phenomenon in nonlocal self-focusing media analogous to the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem.
Keywords:  filamentation instability      nonlocal nonlinearity      nonlinear propagation  
Received:  16 March 2001      Revised:  08 June 2001      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.65.Jx (Beam trapping, self-focusing and defocusing; self-phase modulation)  
  42.65.Sf (Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; optical instabilities, optical chaos and complexity, and optical spatio-temporal dynamics)  
  42.60.Jf (Beam characteristics: profile, intensity, and power; spatial pattern formation)  
  42.60.Lh (Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters)  
Fund: Project supported by the National High Technology Inertial Confinement Fusion Foundation of China (Grant No. 863-416-5) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 69789801).

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Wen Shuang-chun (文双春), Fan Dian-yuan (范滇元) FILAMENTATION INSTABILITY OF LASER BEAMS IN NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIA 2001 Chinese Physics 10 1032

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