Abstract
We consider, experimentally and theoretically, the propagation of a partially-coherent spatial beam in both self-focusing and self-defocusing nonlinear media. Measurements of beam widths confirm the dynamical scaling predicted by a nonlinear Gaussian-Schell model.
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