| Literature DB >> 19519029 |
Ian B Burgess1, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto, Roberto Morandotti.
Abstract
We introduce a new form of stable spatiotemporal self-trapped optical packets stemming from the interplay of local and nonlocal nonlinearities. Pulsed self-trapped light beams in media with both electronic and molecular nonlinear responses are addressed to prove that spatial and temporal effects can be decoupled, allowing for independent tuning. We numerically demonstrate that (3 + 1)D light bullets and antibullets, i.e., bright and dark temporal solitons embedded in stable (2 + 1)D nonlocal spatial solitons, can be generated in reorientational media under experimentally feasible conditions.Year: 2009 PMID: 19519029 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.203903
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161