Azimuthal modulation instability for a cylindrically polarized wave in a nonlinear Kerr medium.
Inhomogeneously polarized optical waves form a class of nonlinear vector wave propagation that has not been widely studied in the literature. We find a modulation instability only when the wave has nonzero ellipticity in a medium where the Kerr nonlinearity possesses opposite handness. Under the modulation instability the wave develops an azimuthally periodic shape with two or four peaks.
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Mozumder
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