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| doi = 10.1146/annurev.fl.12.010180.001511
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| journal = Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
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|bibcode = 1980AnRFM..12..303Y }}</ref> Therefore, it is also known as the '''Benjamin−Feir instability'''. However, spatial modulation instability of high-power lasers in organic solvents was observed by Russian scientists N. F. Piliptetskii and A. R. Rustamov in 1965,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Piliptetskii|first=N. F.|last2=Rustamov|first2=A. R.|date=31 May 1965|title=Observation of Self-focusing of Light in Liquids|url=http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/ps/1596/article_24469.shtml|journal=JETP Letters|volume=2|pages=55-56}}</ref> and the mathematical derivation of modulation instability was published by V. I. Bespalov and V. I. Talanov in 1966.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bespalov|first=V. I.|last2=Talanov|first2=V. I.|date=15 June 1966|title=Filamentary Structure of Light Beams in Nonlinear Liquids|url=http://www.jetpletters.ac.ru/ps/1621/article_24803.shtml|journal=ZhETF Pis ma Redaktsiiu|volume=3|issue=11|pages=471-476}}</ref> Modulation instability is a possible mechanism for the generation of [[rogue wave]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal
| doi = 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)33<863:NFIAFW>2.0.CO;2
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