Nonlinear Electromagnetic X Waves
Abstract
Nonlinear optical media that are normally dispersive support a new type of localized (nondiffractive and nondispersive) wave packets that are X shaped in space and time and have slower than exponential decay. High-intensity X waves, unlike linear ones, can be formed spontaneously through a trigger mechanism of conical emission, thus playing an important role in experiments.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 2003
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhRvL..90q0406C
- Keywords:
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- 03.50.De;
- 05.45.Yv;
- 42.65.Jx;
- 42.65.Tg;
- Classical electromagnetism Maxwell equations;
- Solitons;
- Beam trapping self-focusing and defocusing;
- self-phase modulation;
- Optical solitons;
- nonlinear guided waves