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Self-Accelerating Self-Trapped Optical Beams

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in nonlinear optical media, exhibiting self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and saturable nonlinearities, as well as a quadratic response. In Kerr and saturable media such beams are stable under self-defocusing and weak self-focusing, whereas for strong self-focusing the beams off-shoot solitons while their main lobe continues to accelerate. Self-accelerating self-trapped wave packets are universal, and can also be found in matter waves, plasma, etc.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.213903

Authors: Ido Kaminer, Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Institutions: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, University of Central Florida

Language: English

Topic: Nonlinear Photonic Systems

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1974649596

FWCI: 16.19

Cites: 22

Cited by: 259

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