We investigate one-dimensional transverse modulational instability in a non local medium excited with a spatially incoherent source. Employing undoped nematic liquid crystals in a planar pre-tilted configuration, we investigate the role of the spectral broadening induced by incoherence in conjunction with the spatially non local molecular reorientation. The phenomenon is modeled using the Wigner transform.
@article{arxiv.physics/0409139,
title = {Spatially incoherent modulational instability in a non local medium},
author = {Marco Peccianti and Claudio Conti and Emiliano Alberici and Gaetano Assanto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0409139},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages with 4 figures included. To be published in Laser Physics Letters