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Everything about Modulational instability
Phenomenon whereby deviations from a periodic waveform are reinforced by nonlinearity
In the fields of nonlinear optics and fluid dynamics, modulational instability or sideband instability is a phenomenon whereby deviations from a periodic waveform are reinforced by nonlinearity, leading to the generation of spectral-sidebands and the eventual breakup of the waveform into a train of pulses. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Modulational instabilityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Effects of the higher-order dispersion on solitary waves and modulation instability in a monomode fiberInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Space stationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Langmuir turbulence and modulational instabilityCited 254 times
- Go sideways: Miles-Phillips mechanismA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Compatibility (mechanics)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Langmuir turbulence and modulational instability
Modulational instability for normal dispersion
Experimental Observation of Discrete Modulational Instability
Intermittency through modulational instability
Modulational instability in second-harmonic generation
Geometry of the modulational instability
The modulational instability of coupled waves
Modulational instability in lossy optical fibers
🆕 Influential since 2022
Effects of the higher-order dispersion on solitary waves and modulation instability in a monomode fiber
Modulational instability in nonlinear saturable media with competing nonlocal nonlinearity
Pure quartic modulational instability in weakly nonlocal birefringent fibers
Periodic waves in the discrete mKdV equation: Modulational instability and rogue waves
Modulational instability and quantum droplets in a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Space stationUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1988
Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010- 📕Biomolecular action of ionizing radiationShirley Lehnert · 2007
- 📕Willis E. Lamb, JrWillis Eugene Lamb, D. ter Haar · 1978
- 📕Parametric lower-hybrid instability drives by modulated electron beam injectionPrinceton University. Plasma Physics Laboratory · 1978
- 📕Control of trapped electron instability by modulated neutral beamsMorteza Ghassemi · 1980
- 📕Nonlinear dynamics of modulational instability in optical fibersDun Liu · 1992
- 📕On the modulational instability of large amplitude waves in supersonic boundary layersPhilip Hall · 1995
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