Bright spatial solitons in defocusing Kerr media supported by cascaded nonlinearities.
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We show that resonant wave mixing that is due to quadratic nonlinearity can support stable bright spatial solitons, even in the most counterintuitive case of a bulk medium with defocusing Kerr nonlinearity. We analyze the structure and stability of such self-guided beams and demonstrate that they can be generated from a Gaussian input beam, provided that its power is above a certain threshold.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Optics letters
دوره 22 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997