Title

Optical spatial solitons: Historical perspectives

Authors

Authors

G. I. A. Stegeman; D. N. Christodoulides;M. Segev

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

Keywords

beam self-trapping; bright solitons; coherence; dark solitons; discrete; solitons; discrete systems; Kerr solitons; modulational instability; nonlinear optics; nonlinear optics in cavities; nonlinear waves; optical; bullets; photorefractives; photorefractivity; second harmonic; generation; solitons; soliton collisions; soliton interactions; spatial; solitons; PHOTOREFRACTIVE SCREENING SOLITONS; WAVE-GUIDE ARRAYS; NONLINEAR; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; SOLITARY WAVES; MULTIMODE SOLITONS; PULSES; DARK; PROPAGATION; GENERATION; BRIGHT; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

Optical spatial solitons are self-trapped optical beams that exist by virtue of the balance between diffraction and nonlinearity, They propagate and interact with one another while displaying properties that are normally associated with real particles, Solitons, in general, manifest themselves in a large variety of wave/particle systems in nature: practically in any system that possesses both dispersion (in time or space) and nonlinearity, Solitons have been identified in optics, plasmas, fluids, condensed matter, particle physics, and astrophysics. Yet over the past decade, the forefront of soliton research has shifted to optics, In this paper, we describe the historical evolution of spatial solitons from speculative creatures to one of the most fascinating features optics has to offer.

Journal Title

Ieee Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volume

6

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1419

Last Page

1427

WOS Identifier

WOS:000167275600067

ISSN

1077-260X

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