Self-accelerating self-trapped beams

Ido Kaminer, Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Subtitle of host publicationLaser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO 2011
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2011 - Baltimore, MD, United States
Duration: 1 May 20116 May 2011

Publication series

Name2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO 2011

Conference

Conference2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBaltimore, MD
Period1/05/116/05/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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