• 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