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Light bullets in Bessel optical lattices with spatially modulated nonlinearity

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2015-05-13 v1 Optics

Abstract

We address the stability of light bullets supported by Bessel optical lattices with out-of-phase modulation of the linear and nonlinear refractive indices. We show that spatial modulation of the nonlinearity significantly modifies the shapes and stability domains of the light bullets. The addressed bullets can be stable, provided that the peak intensity does not exceed a critical value. We show that the width of the stability domain in terms of the propagation constant may be controlled by varying the nonlinearity modulation depth. In particular, we show that the maximum energy of the stable bullets grows with increasing nonlinearity modulation depth.

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@article{arxiv.0906.3684,
  title  = {Light bullets in Bessel optical lattices with spatially modulated nonlinearity},
  author = {Fangwei Ye and Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Bambi Hu and Lluis Torner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3684},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figurs, to appear in Optics Express

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