First Observation Of Higher Order Planar Soliton Beams

S. Maneuf; F. Reynaud

doi:10.1117/12.967310

1 January 1987 First Observation Of Higher Order Planar Soliton Beams

S. Maneuf, F. Reynaud

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Proceedings Volume 0813, Optics and the Information Age; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967310
Event: 14th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1987, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Transmission of quasi-monochromatic powerful laser beams through materials exhibiting intensity dependence of their refractive index (optical Kerr nonlinearity) frequently results in chaotic breakdown of the propagated beams. This corresponds to recognized instabilities of the solutions of the three-dimensional propagation equation (cubic nonlinear Schreidinger equation). Two-dimensional stable "soliton" solutions were found theoretically by Zakharov and Shabat in 1972 [1]. These solutions describe ,for the fundamental order stable self-trapping of single mode, two-dimensional monochromatic beams through homogeneous nonlinear slab. Higher orders solutions consist in periodical narrowings and spreadings of the guided beam. We experimentally demonstrated the existence of the "first order (fundamental) soliton beam" in 1985 [2].

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S. Maneuf and F. Reynaud "First Observation Of Higher Order Planar Soliton Beams", Proc. SPIE 0813, Optics and the Information Age, (1 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967310

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