Title

Beam instabilities in second harmonic generation

Abstract

A new class of quadratic solitons occurs during parametric interactions such as second harmonic generation. The solitons consist of an admixture of the fundamental and harmonic beams, one fundamental for Type I phase-matching and two orthogonally polarized fundamentals for Type II. Modulational instabilities or beam break-up occurs in bulk media, leading in certain cases to periodic patterns of spatial solitons. It has been demonstrated that when two soliton beams interact, they fuse, repulse one another or exchange energy on propagation, depending on the relative phase between the solitons.

Publication Date

12-1-1997

Publication Title

Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS

Volume

2

Number of Pages

261-262

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0031338005 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0031338005

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