Accessible Light Bullets via Synergetic Nonlinearities

Ian B. Burgess, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto, and Roberto Morandotti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203903 – Published 19 May 2009

Abstract

We introduce a new form of stable spatiotemporal self-trapped optical packets stemming from the interplay of local and nonlocal nonlinearities. Pulsed self-trapped light beams in media with both electronic and molecular nonlinear responses are addressed to prove that spatial and temporal effects can be decoupled, allowing for independent tuning. We numerically demonstrate that (3+1)D light bullets and antibullets, i.e., bright and dark temporal solitons embedded in stable (2+1)D nonlocal spatial solitons, can be generated in reorientational media under experimentally feasible conditions.

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  • Received 5 February 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.203903

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ian B. Burgess1,2, Marco Peccianti1,3,*, Gaetano Assanto4, and Roberto Morandotti1

  • 1INRS-EMT, Université du Québec, 1650 Boulevard L. Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2 Canada
  • 2School of Engineering Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 3Research Center SOFT INFM-CNR, ”Sapienza” University, P. A. Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
  • 4Nonlinear Optics & OptoElectronics Lab, Università “Roma Tre”, Via Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy

  • *Corresponding author. peccianti@emt.inrs.ca

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Vol. 102, Iss. 20 — 22 May 2009

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