DocumentCode
2235432
Title
Self-accelerating self-trapped beams
Author
Kaminer, Ido ; Segev, Mordechai ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
Author_Institution
Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
fYear
2011
fDate
1-6 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and saturable media. Such beams are stable under self-defocusing and weak self-focusing, whereas for strong self focusing they off-shoot solitons while their main lobe continues accelerating.
Keywords
optical Kerr effect; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; main lobe; off-shoot solitons; saturable media; self-accelerating beams; self-defocusing Kerr; self-focusing Kerr; self-trapped beams; Acceleration; Equations; Focusing; Media; Particle beams; Solitons; Trajectory;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1223-4
Type
conf
Filename
5950430
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