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Published on: November 30, 2012
Stable three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in a two-dimensional photonic lattice
D Mihalache1, D Mazilu, F Lederer
1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques and Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
We investigate the existence and stability of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in self-focusing cubic Kerr-type optical media with an imprinted two-dimensional harmonic transverse modulation of the refractive index. We demonstrate that two-dimensional photonic Kerr-type nonlinear lattices can support stable one-parameter families of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons provided that their energy is within a certain interval and the strength of the lattice potential, which is proportional to the refractive index modulation depth, is above a certain threshold value.
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