Title: | Photorefractive Spatial Solitons | Authors: | Kip, Detlef | Language: | eng | Issue Date: | 2001 | Publisher: | Springer | Document Type: | Article | Journal / Series / Working Paper (HSU): | Advances in Solid State Physics | Volume: | 41 | Page Start: | 149 | Page End: | 160 | Publisher Place: | Berlin ; Heidelberg | Abstract: | 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 overview of new directions like composite solitons, incoherent solitons formed with spatially incoherent light, and incoherent modulation instability. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 |
Organization Units (connected with the publication): | Universität Osnabrück | ISBN: | 978-3-540-44946-1 | Publisher DOI: | 10.1007/3-540-44946-9_13 |
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