Title :
Emergence of order, self-organization and instabilities in a 1-D array of solitons
Author :
Centurion, Martin ; Pu, Ye ; Psaltis, Demetri
Author_Institution :
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
The paper reports on the generation of spatial solitons with carbon disulfide (CS2) as the nonlinear material, which has a critical power of 190 kW for the laser wavelength of 800 nm. A 150-femtosecond pulse with a maximum energy of 1 mJ is also used. Each pulse from the laser is split into pump and probe pulses. The pump pulse is focused into a line (using a cylindrical lens) at the entrance face of a 10 mm glass cell filled with CS2
Keywords :
carbon compounds; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear media; optical materials; optical pumping; optical solitons; 1 mJ; 10 mm; 150 fs; 190 kW; CS2; carbon disulfide; nonlinear material; probe pulse; pump pulse; self-organization; spatial soliton arrays; Laser excitation; Lenses; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Organic materials; Power generation; Power lasers; Probes; Pump lasers; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1547994
