Velocity-locked solitary waves in quadratic media

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Mar 19;104(11):113902. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.113902. Epub 2010 Mar 17.

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally the existence of three-wave resonant interaction solitary triplets in quadratic media. Stable velocity-locked bright-dark-bright spatial solitary triplets, determined by the balance between the energy exchange rates and the velocity mismatch between the interacting waves, are excited in a KTP crystal.