Abstract
We provide a brief overview of recent progresses on the study of a new type of nonlinearity, named hybrid nonlinearity: the coexistence of self-focusing and self-defocusing nonlinearities in the same material under identical conditions. Such hybrid nonlinearity is established in a nonconventionally biased photorefractive crystal, which offers enhanced anisotropy and nonlocality, leading to a variety of unusual nonlinear beam dynamics in both continuous and discrete regimes. In homogenous media, elliptical optical solitons, stabilization of nonlinear optical vortices, as well as orientation-induced transition between bright and dark solitons are demonstrated. In discrete media, hybrid nonlinearity enables the creation of an ionic-type photonic lattice with alternating positive and negative optical potentials, which in turn enables the reconfiguration of lattice structures and Brillouin zones for band-gap engineering and light manipulation. Moreover, a host of nonlinear discrete localized states mediated by such hybrid nonlinearity are uncovered, including elliptical discrete solitons and “saddle” solitons. The novel concept of hybrid nonlinearity opens a door for exploring spatial beam dynamics and related nonlinear phenomena in anisotropic nonlinear systems beyond optics.
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This work was supported by US National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and by the NPU Foundation for Fundamental Research, the Doctorate Foundation of NPU, the 973 Program, the 111 Project, NSFC, and PCSIRT in China. We are indebted to many of our collaborators over the years including F. Xiao, X. Gan, Q. Liu, Y. Gao, X. Tan, D. Yang, X. Wang, and J. Yang. We thank A. Miller for proofreading the chapter.
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Zhang, P. et al. (2012). Spatial Beam Dynamics Mediated by Hybrid Nonlinearity. In: Chen, Z., Morandotti, R. (eds) Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 170. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3538-9_5
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