Stability of Envelope Solitons
- 24 March 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 34 (12), 724-726
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.34.724
Abstract
One-dimensional envelope solitons are unstable against modulation in the direction perpendicular to their propagation for all amplitudes and wave numbers. This is a special case of the filamentation instability.Keywords
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