Abstract
We show theoretically that polarization instability can be observed in planar optical waveguides. Such instability would lead to energy exchange between the spatial solitons associated with the TE0 and TM0 waveguide modes as well as to amplitude-modulation gain, which was recently observed in an optical-fiber geometry.
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