Open AccessSpatiotemporal pulse-train solitons
Author(s) -
Hassid C. Gurgov,
Oren Cohen
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.007052
Subject(s) - pulse (music) , optics , physics , train , pulse wave , transverse plane , nonlinear system , pulse shaping , nonlinear optics , femtosecond pulse shaping , ultrashort pulse , laser , quantum mechanics , cartography , structural engineering , engineering , detector , geography
We propose spatiotemporal solitons that consist of trains of short pulses. The pulses are collectively trapped in the transverse directions by a slow nonlinearity and each pulse is self-trapped in the longitudinal direction by a fast nonlinearity. We demonstrate numerically spatiotemporal bright pulse-train solitons (trains of light bullets) and temporally-dark spatiotemporal pulse-train solitons in an experimentally feasible scheme.