Title :
Self-accelerating self-trapped beams
Author :
Kaminer, Ido ; Segev, Mordechai ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and saturable media. Such beams are stable under self-defocusing and weak self-focusing, whereas for strong self focusing they off-shoot solitons while their main lobe continues accelerating.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; main lobe; off-shoot solitons; saturable media; self-accelerating beams; self-defocusing Kerr; self-focusing Kerr; self-trapped beams; Acceleration; Equations; Focusing; Media; Particle beams; Solitons; Trajectory;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
