Open AccessFrequency Generation and Solitonic Decay in ThreeWave Interactions
Author(s) -
Fabio Baronio,
Matteo Conforti,
Marco Andreana,
Vincent Couderc,
Costantino De Angelis,
Stefan Wabnitz,
Alain Barthélémy,
And Antonio Degasperis
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.013889
Subject(s) - physics , soliton , sum frequency generation , nonlinear system , nonlinear optics , optics , field (mathematics) , quantum electrodynamics , spatial frequency , computational physics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , pure mathematics
We consider experimentally three-wave resonant nonlinear interactions of fields propagating in nonlinear media. We investigate the spatial dynamics of two diffractionless beams at frequency omega1, omega2 which mix to generate a field at the sum frequency omega3. If the generated field at omega3 can sustain a soliton, it decays into solitons at omega1, omega2. We report the experimental evidence of the transition from steady frequency wave generation to solitonic decay in nonlinear optics.