Title : 
Wave kinetic instabilities in nonlinear, statistical optics
         
        
            Author : 
Dylov, Dmitry V. ; Fleischer, Jason W.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey, 08544 USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We experimentally demonstrate wave-kinetic instabilities in the nonlinear coupling of two partially-coherent beams. We report pure momentum-space energy transfer, without intensity modulations, below the (joint) MI threshold and full {x,k} phase space dynamics above it.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Chaos; Energy exchange; Intensity modulation; Kinetic theory; Laser beams; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical modulation; Photorefractive effect;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Baltimore, MD, USA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-834-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431798