• DocumentCode
    2884567
  • Title

    Spatial Thirring-type solitons via electromagnetically induced transparency

  • Author

    Friedler, Inbal ; Kurizki, Gershon ; Cohen, Oren ; Segev, Moti

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Chem. Phys., Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that the giant Kerr nonlinearity in the regime of electromagnetically induced transparency in vapor can give rise to the formation of Thirring-type spatial solitons, which are supported solely by cross-phase modulation.
  • Keywords
    optical Kerr effect; optical modulation; optical solitons; phase modulation; self-induced transparency; cross-phase modulation; electromagnetically induced transparency; giant Kerr nonlinearity; spatial thirring-type soliton formation; vapor; Atom optics; Chemical technology; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical diffraction; Optical modulation; Optical solitons; Physics; Pulse modulation; Scanning probe microscopy; (190.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (270.1670) Coherent optical effects;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4629035
  • Filename
    4629035