Title

Self-Accelerating Self-Trapped Optical Beams

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. © 2011 American Physical Society.

Publication Date

5-26-2011

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Volume

106

Issue

21

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.213903

Socpus ID

79960636907 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79960636907

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