Title :
Eliminating the transverse instabilities of Kerr solitons
Author :
Anastassiou, C. ; Soljacic, Marin ; Segev, Mordechai ; Eugenieva ; Kip, D. ; Musslimani, Z.H. ; Torres, Juan P.
Author_Institution :
Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Despite the progress in the field of optical spatial solitons, transverse instability (TI) has remained a problem. For a spatial optical (1+1)D soliton that is self-trapped in one dimension, x, is uniform in the transverse dimension, y, and is propagating along z, TI causes the soliton to break up along y into an array of 2D filaments. Here we show that if the soliton is made sufficiently incoherent in its transverse uniform dimension, y. then TI is completely eliminated.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; stability; 1D self-trapping; 2D filaments; Kerr media; nonlinear index; optical spatial solitons; soliton break up; spatial optical soliton; transverse dimension; transverse instability; transverse uniform dimension; Bifurcation; Focusing; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Optimized production technology; Physics; Solid state circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2001. QELS '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-663-X
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2001.962134
