Self-Accelerating Self-Trapped Optical Beams

    Authors

    I. Kaminer; M. Segev;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Phys. Rev. Lett.

    Keywords

    AIRY BEAMS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MEDIA; SCREENING SOLITONS; WAVE-PACKETS; GENERATION; Physics, Multidisciplinary

    Abstract

    We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in nonlinear optical media, exhibiting self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and saturable nonlinearities, as well as a quadratic response. In Kerr and saturable media such beams are stable under self-defocusing and weak self-focusing, whereas for strong self-focusing the beams off-shoot solitons while their main lobe continues to accelerate. Self-accelerating self-trapped wave packets are universal, and can also be found in matter waves, plasma, etc.

    Journal Title

    Physical Review Letters

    Volume

    106

    Issue/Number

    21

    Publication Date

    1-1-2011

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    4

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000291007200004

    ISSN

    0031-9007

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