Stable multicolor periodic-wave arrays

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Jan 23;92(3):033901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.033901. Epub 2004 Jan 22.

Abstract

We study the existence and stability of periodic-wave arrays propagating in uniform quadratic nonlinear media and discover that they become completely stable above a threshold light intensity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example in physics of completely stable periodic-wave patterns propagating in conservative uniform media supporting bright solitons.