Modulational instability, solitons and beam propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media

2004/02/23 by W. Krolikowski, O. Bang, N. I. Nikolov +4 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.PS

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1464-4266/6/5/017

Review article, will be published in Journal of Optics B, special issue on Optical Solitons, 6 figures

arxiv created 2004/02/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of nonlocality on the modulational instability of plane waves, the collapse of finite-size beams, and the formation and interaction of spatial solitons.

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