Optical light bullets in a pure Kerr medium

We show that small negative fourth-order dispersion can arrest spatiotemporal collapse of ultrashort pulses with anomalous dispersion in a planar waveguide with pure Kerr nonlinearity, resulting in (2 + 1)D optical bullets. Similarly to solitons, these bullets undergo elastic collisions. Since these...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics letters 2004-04, Vol.29 (8), p.887-889
Hauptverfasser: Fibich, Gadi, Ilan, Boaz
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We show that small negative fourth-order dispersion can arrest spatiotemporal collapse of ultrashort pulses with anomalous dispersion in a planar waveguide with pure Kerr nonlinearity, resulting in (2 + 1)D optical bullets. Similarly to solitons, these bullets undergo elastic collisions. Since these bullets can self-trap from noisy Gaussian input beams and propagate without any power losses, this result may be used to realize experimentally stable, nondissipative optical bullets.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/ol.29.000887