Pulsating dissipative light bullets

Author

Kamagate, A. ; Grelu, Ph ; Tchofo-Dinda, P. ; Crespo, J. M Soto ; Akhmediev, N.

Author_Institution

Inst. Carnot de Bourgogne, Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Finding domains of existence for (3+l)D spatio-temporal dissipative solitons, also called ldquodissipative light bulletsrdquo, by direct numerical solving of a cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) is a lengthy procedure. Variational approaches pave the way for quicker soliton solution mapping, as long as tractable trial functions remain suitable approximations for exact solutions. Using a Gaussian trial function, we recently showed that simple pulsations which consist of inflation-deflation cycles of a single light bullet could exist too.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; Ginzburg-Landau theory; optical solitons; spatiotemporal phenomena; Gaussian trial function; cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation; inflation-deflation cycle; pulsating dissipative light bullet; spatio-temporal dissipative soliton; Australia; Bifurcation; Energy states; Equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical propagation; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; Propagation losses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192929

Filename

5192929