Collapse arrest in instantaneous Kerr media via parametric interactions

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Sep 26;113(13):133901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.133901. Epub 2014 Sep 24.

Abstract

We demonstrate, theoretically and experimentally, that a four-wave mixing parametric interaction is able to arrest the collapse of a two-dimensional multicolor beam in an instantaneous Kerr medium. We consider two weak idlers interacting via a third order nonlinearity with two pump beams and we show that a class of collapse-free quasisolitary solutions can be experimentally observed in a normal dispersion Kerr glass. This observation is sustained by rigorous theoretical analysis demonstrating the stability of the observed self-trapped beams.