Eliminating the transverse instabilities of Kerr solitons
| Autor(en): | Anastassiou, C Soljacic, M Segev, M Eugenieva, ED Christodoulides, DN Kip, D Musslimani, ZH Torres, JP |
Stichwörter: | BEAMS; BRIGHT; DARK; NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL SOLITONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE SCREENING SOLITONS; Physics; Physics, Multidisciplinary; PROPAGATION; SPATIALLY INCOHERENT-LIGHT; STATE; SYMMETRY | Erscheinungsdatum: | 2000 | Herausgeber: | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Journal: | PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | Volumen: | 85 | Ausgabe: | 23 | Startseite: | 4888 | Seitenende: | 4891 | Zusammenfassung: | We show analytically, numerically, and experimentally that a transversely stable one-dimensional [(1 1)D] bright Kerr soliton can exist in a 3D bulk medium. The transverse instability of the soliton is completely eliminated if it is made sufficiently incoherent along the transverse dimension. We derive a criterion for the threshold of transverse instability that links the nonlinearity to the largest transverse correlation distance for which the 1D soliton is stable. |
ISSN: | 00319007 | DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4888 |
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