Abstract
With the intent to explain the onset of a Rayleigh instability in a pure sodium cell driven by counterpropagating light beams, we report a theory that includes pump-depletion effects. A model is developed for fast-moving atoms that predicts the occurrence of a Rayleigh instability for sufficiently large concentration, which may explain the experimental observation.
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