Title :
Spatiotemporal pulse-train solitons
Author :
Gurgov, Hassid C. ; Cohen, Oren
Author_Institution :
Solid State Inst. & Phys. Dept, Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We propose spatiotemporal solitons that consist of trains of short pulses. The pulses are collectively trapped in the transversal directions by a slow nonlinearity and each pulse is self-trapped temporally by a fast nonlinearity.
Keywords :
optical self-focusing; optical solitons; slow light; spatiotemporal phenomena; optical self-trapping; slow nonlinear effect; spatiotemporal pulse-train solitons; transversal directions; Delay; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Space vector pulse width modulation; Spatiotemporal phenomena; (190.5530) Pulse propagation and temporal solitons; (190.6135) Spatial solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
