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Optical light bullets in a pure Kerr medium

Author(s) -

Gadi Fibich,

Boaz Ilan

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

optics letters

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 272

eISSN - 1071-2763

pISSN - 0146-9592

DOI - 10.1364/ol.29.000887

Subject(s) - optics , physics , dispersion (optics) , kerr effect , planar , nonlinear medium , nonlinear optics , self phase modulation , self focusing , phase conjugation , light beam , power (physics) , nonlinear system , laser beams , laser , quantum mechanics , computer graphics (images) , computer science

We show that small negative fourth-order dispersion can arrest spatiotemporal collapse of ultrashort pulses with anomalous dispersion in a planar waveguide with pure Kerr nonlinearity, resulting in (2 + 1)D optical bullets. Similarly to solitons, these bullets undergo elastic collisions. Since these bullets can self-trap from noisy Gaussian input beams and propagate without any power losses, this result may be used to realize experimentally stable, nondissipative optical bullets.

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