Solitary wave emission from a nonlinear slab waveguide in three dimensions
- 15 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 56 (3) , 215-217
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.102835
Abstract
We show numerically that solitary waves, localized in two transverse dimensions, are emitted when a high-power Gaussian beam is launched into a slab waveguide in which the cladding displays a saturable self-focusing nonlinearity.Keywords
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