Boundary force effects exerted on solitons in highly nonlinear media

    Authors

    B. Alfassi; C. Rotschild; O. Manela; M. Segev;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    OPTICAL SPATIAL SOLITONS; QUADRATIC SOLITONS; BEAM-PROPAGATION; WAVE-GUIDE; INTERFACE; REFLECTION; DYNAMICS; Optics

    Abstract

    We study the effects caused by remote boundaries on soliton dynamics in nonlinear media with a large range of nonlocality, and demonstrate theoretically and experimentally how asymmetric boundary forces can lead to soliton steering and oscillation in predetermined trajectories. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    32

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2007

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    154

    Last Page

    156

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000243298700016

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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