Induced coherence and stable soliton spiraling

Author

Buryak, A.V. ; Kivshar, Yuri S. ; Ming-Feng Shih ; Segev, Mordechai

Author_Institution

Sch. of Math. & Stat., Australian Defence Force Acad., Canberra, ACT, Australia

fYear

1992

fDate

23-28 May 1992

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

86

Abstract

Summary form only given. We develop a theory of soliton spiraling in a saturable bulk nonlinear medium and reveal a new physical mechanism: periodic power exchange via induced coherence, which can lead to stable spiraling and the formation of dynamical soliton bound states. We show theoretically and experimentally that soliton spiraling can be controlled by the degree of mutual initial coherence.

Keywords

bound states; light coherence; nonlinear media; optical saturation; optical self-focusing; optical solitons; bulk nonlinear medium; dynamical soliton bound states; induced coherence; mutual initial coherence; periodic power exchange; physical mechanism; saturable bulk nonlinear medium; soliton spiraling; stable soliton spiraling; stable spiraling; Astronomy; Australia; Mathematics; Optical diffraction; Optical solitons; Optimized production technology; Photonics; Physics; Statistics; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1999. QELS '99. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-576-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QELS.1999.807340

Filename

807340