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Nonlinearity Management in Optics: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation

Martin Centurion1,2, Mason A. Porter2,3, P. G. Kevrekidis4, and Demetri Psaltis1

  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 2Center for the Physics of Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 4Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-4515, USA

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 033903 – Published 21 July, 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.033903

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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.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 033903– Published 21 July, 2006
  • Received 14 April 2006

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