Title :
Solitary waves in the presence of third-harmonic generation
Author :
Sammut, Rowland A. ; Buryak, Alexander V. ; Kivshar, Yuri S.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Math. & Stat., ADFA, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
We show that phase-matched third-harmonic generation in a Kerr medium leads to a power threshold for the existence of two-frequency spatial solitons while cascading of third-order processes causes a higher-order phase shift and multistability of solitary waves
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical bistability; optical harmonic generation; optical solitons; Kerr medium; higher-order phase shift; phase-matched third-harmonic generation; power threshold; solitary wave multistability; solitary waves; third-harmonic generation; third-order processes; two-frequency spatial solitons; Australia; Diffraction; Frequency conversion; Linearity; Mathematics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical materials; Power system harmonics; Resonance; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3895-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1997.645408
