Image transmission in self-focusing media by means of incoherent solitons

Author

Kip, D. ; Anastassiou, C. ; Eugenevia, E. ; Christodoulides, D. ; Segev, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

222

Abstract

Summary form only given.Image transmission through thick self-focusing highly nonlinear media has been a challenging task for the late 20 th century. In fact, transmitting even a simple Gaussian-like beam through such media is very difficult, because the beam breaks up into filaments with a characteristic width close to that of a spatial soliton under the same intensity and nonlinearity conditions. Here we show that an incoherent soliton can be used as a means of image transmission through a thick nonlinear medium.

Keywords

light coherence; optical communication; optical self-focusing; optical solitons; visual communication; Gaussian-like beam; beam break up; image transmission; incoherent soliton; incoherent solitons; nonlinearity conditions; self-focusing media; spatial soliton; thick nonlinear medium; thick self-focusing highly nonlinear media; Acoustic scattering; Adaptive optics; Image communication; Lenses; Optical distortion; Optical noise; Optical scattering; Optical solitons; Silicon compounds; Speckle;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.906937

Filename

906937