Abstract
It is shown that a moving intensity grating in a photorefractive crystal with a sufficiently large lifetimemobility product can give rise to an instability against excitation of weakly damped space-charge waves. Increments and threshold of the instability are investigated for the threedimensional case. Subharmonics and other nonlinear scenarios of saturation are discussed.
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