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Nonlinear Crystal
Dmitry V. Dylov '10 (undergraduate), and Jason W. Fleischer (faculty)
Department of Electrical Engineering
This initially clear crystal became grainy and wrinkled after interaction with incident light. This phenomenon is called "modulation instability" and it results from nonlinear interaction between electromagnetic waves and matter.