DocumentCode
1823759
Title
Eliminating the transverse instabilities of Kerr solitons
Author
Anastassiou, C. ; Soljacic, Marin ; Segev, Mordechai ; Eugenieva ; Kip, D. ; Musslimani, Z.H. ; Torres, Juan P.
Author_Institution
Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
fYear
2001
fDate
11-11 May 2001
Firstpage
227
Lastpage
228
Abstract
Summary form only given. Despite the progress in the field of optical spatial solitons, transverse instability (TI) has remained a problem. For a spatial optical (1+1)D soliton that is self-trapped in one dimension, x, is uniform in the transverse dimension, y, and is propagating along z, TI causes the soliton to break up along y into an array of 2D filaments. Here we show that if the soliton is made sufficiently incoherent in its transverse uniform dimension, y. then TI is completely eliminated.
Keywords
optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; stability; 1D self-trapping; 2D filaments; Kerr media; nonlinear index; optical spatial solitons; soliton break up; spatial optical soliton; transverse dimension; transverse instability; transverse uniform dimension; Bifurcation; Focusing; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Optimized production technology; Physics; Solid state circuits;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2001. QELS '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-663-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/QELS.2001.962134
Filename
962134
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