Open AccessSpace-time bullet trains via modulation instability and nonlocal solitons
Author(s) -
Marco Peccianti,
Ian Burgess,
Gaetano Assanto,
Roberto Morandotti
Publication year - 2010
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.18.005934
Subject(s) - instability , modulation (music) , physics , optics , nonlinear optics , nonlinear system , spacetime , train , self phase modulation , space (punctuation) , wave packet , quantum mechanics , computer science , laser , cartography , acoustics , geography , operating system
We introduce the generation of dense trains of light-bullets in nonlocal nonlinear dielectrics. We exploit stable spatio-temporal self-trapped optical packets stemming from the interplay between local electronic and nonlocal reorientational nonlinearities, considering a seeded temporal modulation instability by specifically referring to nematic liquid crystals.