• DocumentCode
    1452014
  • Title

    Self-focusing and 2D spatial solitons in PTS

  • Author

    Torruellas, W. ; Lawrence, B. ; Stegeman, G.I.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    22
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    10/24/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2092
  • Lastpage
    2094
  • Abstract
    The authors show experimentally that spatial solitons with two transverse dimensions can be generated to 1600 nm in bulk polydiacetylene paratoluene-sulfonate (PTS) by a combination of third and fifth order nonlinearities
  • Keywords
    optical polymers; optical self-focusing; optical solitons; 1 kW; 1600 nm; 2D spatial solitons; bulk single crystals; fifth order nonlinearities; polydiacetylene paratoluene-sulphonate; self-focusing; third order nonlinearities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19961400
  • Filename
    543836