TY - JOUR
T1 - Criteria for the experimental observation of multidimensional optical solitons in saturable media
AU - Chen, Yi Fan
AU - Beckwitt, Kale
AU - Wise, Frank W.
AU - Malomed, Boris A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-0099564, and the Binational (U.S.-Israel) Science Foundation (Contract No. 1999459). We thank Jeffrey Harbold for valuable discussions.
PY - 2004/10
Y1 - 2004/10
N2 - A criteria for development of multidimensional solitons in saturable media was developed. As a benchmark saturable Kerr media, nonlinear glasses were considered, and an analysis of the effects of nonlinear absorption on soliton formation was done. The conditions for the soliton formation were usually expressed in terms of the normalized energy content, and also converted into dispersion and diffraction lengths. Due to the nonlinear loss in glasses, while a well-defined window of parameters exists for two-dimensional solitons, for their three-dimensional spatiotemporal counterparts such a window does not exist.
AB - A criteria for development of multidimensional solitons in saturable media was developed. As a benchmark saturable Kerr media, nonlinear glasses were considered, and an analysis of the effects of nonlinear absorption on soliton formation was done. The conditions for the soliton formation were usually expressed in terms of the normalized energy content, and also converted into dispersion and diffraction lengths. Due to the nonlinear loss in glasses, while a well-defined window of parameters exists for two-dimensional solitons, for their three-dimensional spatiotemporal counterparts such a window does not exist.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.046610
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.046610
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AN - SCOPUS:37649032395
SN - 1539-3755
VL - 70
SP - 046610-1-046610-7
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
IS - 4 2
M1 - 046610
ER -