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Spatial Solitons in Saturating Nonlinear Materials

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Optical Solitons: Theoretical Challenges and Industrial Perspectives

Part of the book series: Centre de Physique des Houches ((LHWINTER,volume 12))

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Abstract

Spatial solitons are self-trapped optical beams which “write” waveguides into a nonlinear material. These soliton induced waveguides could be very useful in areas such as optical switching if suitable nonlinear materials were developed, To sustain a soliton the nonlinearity must be rather large, and in most experimental work on spatial solitons saturation of the nonlinear response occurs. Saturation can have marked quantitative and qualitative effect on the behaviour of the solitons. This lecture describes with reference to experiments some properties of spatial solitons in saturating materials.

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  1. Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    B. Luther-Davies, V. Tikhonenko, J. Christou & W. Krolikowski

  2. Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Optical Sciences Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    Y. Kivshar & N. Akmediev

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  1. L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 2 Kosygin Str., 117334, Moscow, Russia

    V. E. Zakharov

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Luther-Davies, B., Tikhonenko, V., Christou, J., Krolikowski, W., Kivshar, Y., Akmediev, N. (1999). Spatial Solitons in Saturating Nonlinear Materials. In: Zakharov, V.E., Wabnitz, S. (eds) Optical Solitons: Theoretical Challenges and Industrial Perspectives. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03807-9_19

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