Three-dimensional light bullets in arrays of waveguides.
Stefano Minardi,Falk Eilenberger,Yaroslav V. Kartashov,Alexander Szameit,U. Ropke,Jens Kobelke,Kay Schuster,Hartmut Bartelt,Stefan Nolte,Lluis Torner,Falk Lederer,Andreas Tünnermann,Thomas Pertsch +12 more
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In this paper, the first experimental observation of three-dimensional light bullets, excited by femtosecond pulses in a system featuring quasi-instantaneous cubic nonlinearity and a periodic, transversally modulated refractive index was reported.Abstract:
We report the first experimental observation of three-dimensional light bullets, excited by femtosecond pulses in a system featuring quasi-instantaneous cubic nonlinearity and a periodic, transversally modulated refractive index. Stringent evidence of the excitation of light bullets is based on time-gated images and spectra which perfectly match our numerical simulations. Furthermore, we reveal a novel evolution mechanism forcing the light bullets to follow varying dispersion or diffraction conditions, until they leave their existence range and decay.read more
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Optical solitons : from fibers to photonic crystals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce spatial and temporal solitons in photonic crystals, and introduce the concept of Incoherent Solitons, which is a subclass of the spatial and temporally soliton.
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Physics of solitons
Thierry Dauxois,Michel Peyrard +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the KdV equation for surface hydrodynamic waves has been used to model the Ferm-Pasta-Ulam problem for dislocations in crystals.