• DocumentCode
    2080777
  • Title

    Temporal instability of spatial solitons driven by quantum noise

  • Author

    Di Trapani, P. ; Arrighi, G. ; Yu, Jin ; Valiulis, Gintaras ; Minardi, Stefano ; Jenkins, S.D. ; Kennedy, T.A.B.

  • Author_Institution
    INFM, Univ. dell´´Insubria, Como
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    21-21 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    157
  • Lastpage
    158
  • Abstract
    We report the first observation of temporal modulation instability of spatial solitons produced in second harmonic generation. Using quantum theory we interpret the observed instability to result from quantum fluctuations of the vacuum field
  • Keywords
    fluctuations; optical chaos; optical harmonic generation; optical modulation; optical solitons; quantum noise; quantum optics; modulation instability; quantum fluctuations; quantum noise; quantum theory; second harmonic generation; spatial solitons; temporal instability; vacuum field;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-778-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1366691