Modulational Instability in a Layered Kerr Medium: Theory and Experiment
Modulational Instability in a Layered Kerr Medium: Theory and Experiment
We present the first experimental investigation of modulational instability in a layered Kerr medium. The particularly interesting and appealing feature of our configuration, consisting of alternating glass-air layers, is the piecewise-constant nature of the material properties, which allows a theoretical linear stability analysis leading to a Kronig-Penney equation whose forbidden …