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On the stabilizing effect of nonlinear energy losses in light bullet propagation |
JOSA B, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp. 603-609 (2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.30.000603
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Abstract
We study the stability of three-dimensional, propagation-invariant wave packets in self-focusing media with anomalous dispersion at intensities where nonlinear absorption is significant. For light bullets with spherical symmetry in the two transversal dimensions and time, we show that nonlinear losses (NLLs) act as a strongly stabilizing mechanism for light bullet propagation, and, in practical settings, that longer-lived light bullet propagation requires, paradoxically, higher NLLs during the propagation, at the expense of higher input energy.
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OCIS Codes
(190.3100) Nonlinear optics : Instabilities and chaos
(190.5940) Nonlinear optics : Self-action effects
(260.5950) Physical optics : Self-focusing
ToC Category:
Nonlinear Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 8, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: January 10, 2013
Published: February 15, 2013
Citation
Miguel A. Porras and Francisco Redondo, "On the stabilizing effect of nonlinear energy losses in light bullet propagation," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 603-609 (2013)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-30-3-603
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