Title

Boundary force effects exerted on solitons in highly nonlinear media

Authors

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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