Modulational instability, solitons and beam propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of nonlocality on the modulational instability of plane waves, the collapse of finite-size beams, and the formation and interaction of spatial solitons.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0402040,
title = {Modulational instability, solitons and beam propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media},
author = {W. Krolikowski and O. Bang and N. I. Nikolov and D. Neshev and J. Wyller and J. J. Rasmussen and D. Edmundson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0402040},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Review article, will be published in Journal of Optics B, special issue on Optical Solitons, 6 figures