Observation of self-trapping of light in walk-off-compensating tandems

    Authors

    S. Carrasco; D. V. Petrov; J. P. Torres; L. Torner; H. Kim; G. Stegeman;J. J. Zondy

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    SOLITONS; CRYSTAL; N-(4-NITROPHENYL)-L-PROLINOL; NONLINEARITIES; GENERATION; PULSES; Optics

    Abstract

    We report the first experimental observation, to our knowledge, of the self-trapping of light in walk-off-compensating optical tandems. The experiment was conducted with picosecond light pulses in a ten-plate optically contacted tandem made of potassium titanyl phosphate prepared for phase matching along a special geometry featuring a huge local walk-off. The observation should open the door to the exploration of multicomponent soliton formation in new classes of materials and settings. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    29

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2004

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    382

    Last Page

    384

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000188703300020

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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