Optical spatial solitons: Historical perspectives

被引：180

作者：

Stegeman, GIA ^{[1
]}

Christodoulides, DN

Segev, M

机构：

[1] Univ Cent Florida, Sch Opt, Orlando, FL 32826 USA

[2] Univ Cent Florida, CREOL, Orlando, FL 32826 USA

[3] Lehigh Univ, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA

[4] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

[5] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Inst Solid State, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

[6] Princeton Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

[7] Princeton Univ, Ctr POEM, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

来源：

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 2000年 / 6卷 / 06期

关键词：

beam self-trapping; bright solitons; coherence; dark solitons; discrete solitons; discrete systems; Kerr solitons; modulational instability; nonlinear optics; nonlinear optics in cavities; nonlinear waves; optical bullets; photorefractives; photorefractivity; second harmonic generation; solitons; soliton collisions; soliton interactions; spatial solitons;

D O I：

10.1109/2944.902197

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Optical spatial solitons are self-trapped optical beams that exist by virtue of the balance between diffraction and nonlinearity, They propagate and interact with one another while displaying properties that are normally associated with real particles, Solitons, in general, manifest themselves in a large variety of wave/particle systems in nature: practically in any system that possesses both dispersion (in time or space) and nonlinearity, Solitons have been identified in optics, plasmas, fluids, condensed matter, particle physics, and astrophysics. Yet over the past decade, the forefront of soliton research has shifted to optics, In this paper, we describe the historical evolution of spatial solitons from speculative creatures to one of the most fascinating features optics has to offer.

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页码：1419 / 1427

页数：9

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