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View SchemaCriteria for the experimental observation of multi-dimensional optical solitons in saturable media
| Authors | Yi-Fan Chen, Kale Beckwitt, Frank W. Wise, Boris A. Malomed |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0409081 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0409081 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.046610 |
Abstract
Criteria for experimental observation of multi-dimensional optical solitons in media with saturable refractive nonlinearities are developed. The criteria are applied to actual material parameters (characterizing the cubic self-focusing and quintic self-defocusing nonlinearities, two-photon loss, and optical-damage threshold) for various glasses. This way, we identify operation windows for soliton formation in these glasses. It is found that two-photon absorption sets stringent limits on the windows. We conclude that, while a well-defined window of parameters exists for two-dimensional solitons (spatial or spatiotemporal), for their three-dimensional spatiotemporal counterparts such a window \emph{does not} exist, due to the nonlinear loss in glasses.
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