Nonlinearity Management in Optics: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-11-11 v2 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Optics
Abstract
We conduct an experimental investigation of nonlinearity management in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air. By examining the propagation properties over several diffraction lengths, we show that wave collapse can be prevented. We corroborate these experimental results with numerical simulations of the (2 + 1)-dimensional focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with piecewise constant coefficients and a theoretical analysis of this setting using a moment method.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0604031,
title = {Nonlinearity Management in Optics: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation},
author = {Martin Centurion and Mason A. Porter and P. G. Kevrekidis and Demetri Psaltis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0604031},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures (some with multiple parts; color online), to appear in Physical Review Letters; changes from previous version: revised figures, discussion of time-dependent simulations, other touch-ups