Publication Date
2006
Abstract
We conduct an experimental investigation of nonlinearity management in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air. By examining the propagation properties over several diffraction lengths, we show that wave collapse can be prevented. We corroborate these experimental results with numerical simulations of the (2+1)-dimensional focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with piecewise constant coefficients and a theoretical analysis of this setting using a moment method.
Volume
97
Issue
3
Recommended Citation
Centurion, Martin; Porter, Mason; and Kevrekidis, PG, "Nonlinearity Management in Optics: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation" (2006). Mathematics and Statistics Department Faculty Publication Series. 1085.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/math_faculty_pubs/1085
Comments
This is the pre-published version harvested from arXiv. The published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v97/i3/e033903