Space-time bullet trains via modulation instability and nonlocal solitons

Opt Express. 2010 Mar 15;18(6):5934-41. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.005934.

Abstract

We introduce the generation of dense trains of light-bullets in nonlocal nonlinear dielectrics. We exploit stable spatio-temporal self-trapped optical packets stemming from the interplay between local electronic and nonlocal reorientational nonlinearities, considering a seeded temporal modulation instability by specifically referring to nematic liquid crystals.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Light
  • Lighting / methods*
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Refractometry / methods*
  • Scattering, Radiation