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Formation and stability of light bullets: recent theoretical studies

D. MIHALACHE1,2

Affiliation

  1. Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Department of Theoretical Physics, 407 Atomistilor,Magurele-Bucharest 077125, Romania
  2. Academy of Romanian Scientists, 54 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest 050094, Romania

Abstract

The spatiotemporal optical solitons (alias "light bullets") are nondiffracting and nondispersing wavepackets propagating in nonlinear optical media. They are localized (self-guided) in two transverse (spatial) dimensions and in the direction of propagation due to the balance of anomalous group-velocity dispersion of the medium in which they form and nonlinear self-phase modulation. The formation of fully three-dimensional light bullets is one of the most exciting, yet experimentally unsolved problems in nonlinear photonics. A brief up-to-date survey of recent theoretical studies of light bullet formation and stability in various physical settings is given..

Keywords

Spatiotemporal optical solitons, Spinning solitons, Optical lattices, Discrete light bullets.

Submitted at: Dec. 15, 2009
Accepted at: Jan. 20, 2010

Citation

D. MIHALACHE, Formation and stability of light bullets: recent theoretical studies, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 12, Iss. 1, pp. 12-18 (2010)