Transverse Instability of Optical Spatiotemporal Solitons in Quadratic Media
- 28 August 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 85 (9) , 1871-1874
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.85.1871
Abstract
We present experimental and numerical observations of transverse instability in quadratic media under conditions that emphasize the inherently spatiotemporal and multidimensional nature of the wave propagation. Intensity-dependent beam filamentation is shown to be closely connected to the periodic evolution of quadratic solitons, and implications for the generation of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons are discussed.Keywords
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