Title :
Suppression of transverse instability of stripe beams by 1D photonic lattices
Author :
Yang, Jianke ; Gallardo, Daniel ; Miller, Alexandra ; Chen, Zhigang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Stat., Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Abstract :
We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that transverse instability of soliton stripes can be greatly suppressed when the solitons propagate in a 1D lattice under self-defocusing nonlinearity.
Keywords :
laser beams; optical self-focusing; optical solitons; photonic crystals; 1D photonic lattices; self-defocusing nonlinearity; soliton stripes; stripe beams; transverse instability suppression; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Focusing; Lattices; Mathematical model; Nonlinear optics; Optimized production technology; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
