Photorefractive spatial solitons

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作者
Kip, D [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Osnabruck, Dept Phys, D-49069 Osnabruck, Germany
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ADVANCES IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS 41 | 2001年 / 41卷
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10.1007/3-540-44946-9_13
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Non-diffracting wave packages or solitons have been the subject of intense study over the last three decades. In particular optical spatial solitons, for which diffraction is exactly balanced by self-focusing in a nonlinear medium, have strongly stimulated the research in the field of solitons in the 90's, especially in photorefractive crystals. Such optical spatial solitons exhibit particle-like behavior in their interactions and stability properties, conserving energy and momentum, and the fascinating results obtained in this field have major consequences in many non-optical systems that can support solitons. This article explains the basic mechanisms that lead to soliton formation, in particular in photorefractive crystals, and gives a short over-view of new directions like composite solitons, incoherent solitons formed with spatially incoherent light, and incoherent modulation instability.
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