| Optical Beams in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media |
| W. Królikowski Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Laser Physics Centre Research School of Physical Science and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia O. Bang Department of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University Denmark, Building 305/321, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark J. Wyller Department of Mathematical Sciences, Agricultural University of Norway, P.O. Box 5065, 1432 As, Norway and J.J. Rasmussen Riso National Laboratory, Optics and Fluid Dynamics Department, OFD - 128 P.O. Box 49, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark |
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| We discuss propagation of optical beams in nonlocal Kerr-like media with the nonlocality of general form. We study the effect of nonlocality on modulational instability of the plane wave fronts, collapse of finite beams and formation of spatial solitons. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.103.133 PACS numbers: 42.65.Tg, 42.65.Jx |