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Instability of a light beam and its decomposition with thermal self-stress in a moving medium

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On the basis of linearized equations for perturbations in a one-dimensional light beam propagating in a moving medium with thermal nonlinearity, the article shows the possibility of an exponential growth of these perturbations with an intensity above the critical in the beam. Numerical solutions were carried out for the nonlinear equations of the propagation of Gaussian beams, showing that small perturbations can lead to decomposition of the beams.

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  1. Institute of the Physics of the Atmosphere, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    V. V. Vorob'ev & V. V. Shemetov

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 1610–1617, November, 1978.

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Vorob'ev, V.V., Shemetov, V.V. Instability of a light beam and its decomposition with thermal self-stress in a moving medium. Radiophys Quantum Electron 21, 1119–1124 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02121379

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