Title :
Observation of elliptic incoherent spatial solitons
Author :
Katz, O. ; Carmon, Tal ; Schwartz, Tony ; Segev, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
We present the first experimental observation of spatially-incoherent elliptic solitons. We use partially-spatially-incoherent light with anisotropic correlation statistics, and observe elliptic solitons supported by the photorefractive screening nonlinearity
Keywords :
optical self-focusing; optical solitons; photorefractive effect; anisotropic correlation statistics; elliptic solitons; incoherent solitons; partially-spatially-incoherent light; photorefractive screening nonlinearity; self-focusing; self-trapping; spatial solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-778-4
