Experimental observation of speckle instability in Kerr random media |
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Authors: | Bortolozzo U Residori S Sebbah P |
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Affiliation: | INLN, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, 1361 route des Lucioles 06560 Valbonne, France. |
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Abstract: | In a disordered nonlinear medium the transmitted speckle pattern was predicted to become unstable as a result of the positive feedback between intensity fluctuations and local variations of the refractive index. We show experimental evidence of speckle instability for light transversally scattered in a liquid crystal cell, where a two-dimensional controlled disorder is imprinted by suitable illumination of a photoconductive wall and nonlinearity is obtained through optical reorientation of the liquid crystal molecules. The speckle pattern spontaneously oscillates at discrete frequencies above a critical threshold, whose dependence on the scattering mean free path confirms the crucial role of disorder in the feedback process. |
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