Title :
Spatiotemporal X Waves in Highly Nonlinear Optical Systems
Author :
Kominis, Yannis ; Moshonas, Nikolaos ; Papagiannis, Panagiotis ; Droulias, Sotiris ; Efremidis, Nikolaos K. ; Hizanidis, Kyriakos ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens
Abstract :
The formation of spatiotemporal X waves is investigated in planar highly nonlinear normally dispersive AlGaAs waveguides. The roles of the amplitude and relative phase of a CW background on a bell-shaped spatiotemporal beam are considered
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; nonlinear optics; optical dispersion; optical waveguides; spatiotemporal phenomena; AlGaAs; bell-shaped spatiotemporal beam; nonlinear optical systems; planar highly nonlinear normally dispersive waveguides; spatiotemporal X wave formation; Diffraction; Dispersion; Equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical solitons; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Spatiotemporal phenomena;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-796-2
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2005.1549167
