title: Soliton transverse instabilities in anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media.
abstract: We study, both numerically 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt D-64289, Germany.
authors.forename: Kristian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Motzek
authors.forename: Friedemann
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: Wen-Hen
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Ming-Feng
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.forename: Yuri S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kivshar