Title :
Collapse suppression by a positive index profile
Author :
Skup, S. ; Peschel, U. ; Ederer, F.L.
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Festkorpertlieorie und Theor. Opt., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Jena, Germany
Abstract :
Catastrophic self-focusing is a main obstacle for increasing the throughput in transparent optical materials. Here we show that collapse can be suppressed by a focusing index profile.
Keywords :
optical materials; optical self-focusing; refractive index; transparency; catastrophic self-focusing; collapse suppression; positive index profile; refractive index profile; transparent optical materials; Collimators; Optical materials; Optical modulation; Refractive index; Schrodinger equation; Solitons; Throughput; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7733-8
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2003.1313952
