2006/04/30 by Martin Centurion, Mason A. Porter, P. G. Kevrekidis +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #nlin.PS #nlin.SI #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.97.033903
4 pages, 4 figures (some with multiple parts; color online), to appear in Physical Review Letters; changes from previous version: revised figures, discussion of time-dependent simulations, other touch-ups
arxiv created 2006/06/20 · openalex publication_date 2006/07/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We conduct an experimental investigation of nonlinearity management in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air. By examining the propagation properties over several diffraction lengths, we show that wave collapse can be prevented. We corroborate these experimental results with numerical simulations of the (2+1)-dimensional focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with piecewise constant coefficients and a theoretical analysis of this setting using a moment method.