Spatial modulational instability and multisolitonlike generation in a quadratically nonlinear optical medium

Year: 1997

Authors: Fuerst R.A., Baboiu D.-M., Lawrence B., Torruellas W.E., Stegeman G.I., Trillo S., Wabnitz S.

Autors Affiliation: Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32826, United States; Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Via B. Castiglione 59, Roma, 00142, Italy

Abstract: A novel type of spatial modulational instability induced by the dynamical interaction of two strongly coupled fundamental and harmonic fields in a second-order nonlinear optical material is demonstrated experimentally. This phenomenon is explained theoretically on the basis of a one-dimensional Floquet theory. At high intensities, the formation of a 1D solitary wave lattice is superseded by the onset of 2D modulational instabilities.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 78 (14)      Pages from: 2756  to: 2759

KeyWords: Linear Schrodiger-equation; Solitons; Fibers; Chaos
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2756

Citations: 145
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