Abstract
We study the modulational instability of the plane wave solutions to nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We show that nonlocality suppresses the instability in case of self-focusing nonlinearity while it has much weaker effect in the self-defocusing medium.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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