Title

Self-Accelerating Self-Trapped Optical Beams

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.213903

Language

English

First Page

4

WOS Identifier

WOS:000291007200004

ISSN

0031-9007

Recommended Citation

"Self-Accelerating Self-Trapped Optical Beams" (2011). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 1453.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/1453