Eliminating the transverse instabilities of Kerr solitons

被引：64

作者：

Anastassiou, C ^{[1
]}

Soljacic, M

Segev, M

Eugenieva, ED

Christodoulides, DN

Kip, D

Musslimani, ZH

Torres, JP

机构：

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

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

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

[4] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

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

[6] Univ Osnabruck, Dept Phys, D-49069 Osnabruck, Germany

[7] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Math, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel

[8] Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Signal Theory & Commun, Barcelona, Spain

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2000年 / 85卷 / 23期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4888

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We show analytically, numerically, and experimentally that a transversely stable one-dimensional [(1 + 1)D] bright Kerr soliton can exist in a 3D bulk medium. The transverse instability of the soliton is completely eliminated if it is made sufficiently incoherent along the transverse dimension. We derive a criterion for the threshold of transverse instability that links the nonlinearity to the largest transverse correlation distance for which the 1D soliton is stable.

引用

页码：4888 / 4891

页数：4

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