Solitary wave emission from a nonlinear slab waveguide in three dimensions

D. R. Heatley; E. M. Wright; G. I. Stegeman

doi:10.1063/1.102835

Solitary wave emission from a nonlinear slab waveguide in three dimensions

D. R. Heatley, E. M. Wright, G. I. Stegeman

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	215-217
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	56
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.102835
State	Published - 1990

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