We study, both theoretically and experimentally, the transverse modulational instability of spatial stripe solitons in anisotropic nonlocal photorefractive media. We demonstrate that the instability scenarios depend strongly on the stripe orientation, but the anisotropy-induced features are largely suppressed for spatial solitons created by self-trapping of partially incoherent light.
@article{arxiv.nlin/0308016,
title = {Soliton transverse instabilities in anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media},
author = {Kristian Motzek and Friedemann Kaiser and Wen-Hen Chu and Ming-Feng Shih and Yuri Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0308016},
year = {2009}
}
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3 pages including 4 figures (2 theoretical and 2 experimental). submitted to Optics Letters