Modulational instability at sum and difference frequencies in media with a high-order nonlinearity
Vlasov S. N., Talanov V. I.
As electromagnetic waves of frequency ω0 propagate through a medium with a nonlinear polarization of order 2N+1, an instability can occur at sum and difference frequencies, il2 and il2, which satisfy the condition 2Μω0 = Ω1 + Ω2, where Μ is an integer ^N, The conditions for the onset of this instability are determined. © 1994 American Institute of Physics.