title: Optical beam instabilities in nonlinear nanosuspensions.
abstract: We investigate the modulation instability of plane waves and the transverse instabilities of soliton stripe beams propagating in nonlinear nanosuspensions. We show that in these systems the process of modulational instability depends on the input beam conditions. On the other hand, the transverse instability of soliton stripes can exhibit new features as a result of 1D collapse caused by the exponential nonlinearity.
authors.affiliation: College of Optics & Photonics-CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando 32816, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: El-Ganainy
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Christodoulides
authors.forename: Ziad H
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Musslimani
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rotschild
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segev