We investigate experimentally the competition between spatial and temporal breakup due to modulational instability in [Formula presented] nonlinear mixing. The modulation of the wave packets caused by the energy exchange between fundamental and second-harmonic components is found to be the prevailing trigger mechanism which, according to the relative weight of diffraction and dispersion, leads to the appearance of a multisoliton pattern in the low-dimensional spatial or temporal domain. © 2003 The American Physical Society.

Salerno, D., Minardi, S., Trull, J., Varanavicius, A., Tamosauskas, G., Valiulis, G., et al. (2003). Spatial versus temporal deterministic wave breakup of nonlinearly coupled light waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 91(14), 143905.1-143905.4 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.143905].

Spatial versus temporal deterministic wave breakup of nonlinearly coupled light waves

SALERNO, DOMENICO;
2003

Abstract

We investigate experimentally the competition between spatial and temporal breakup due to modulational instability in [Formula presented] nonlinear mixing. The modulation of the wave packets caused by the energy exchange between fundamental and second-harmonic components is found to be the prevailing trigger mechanism which, according to the relative weight of diffraction and dispersion, leads to the appearance of a multisoliton pattern in the low-dimensional spatial or temporal domain. © 2003 The American Physical Society.
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modulational instability, spatiotemporal coupling, nonlinear optics
English
2003
91
14
143905.1
143905.4
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Salerno, D., Minardi, S., Trull, J., Varanavicius, A., Tamosauskas, G., Valiulis, G., et al. (2003). Spatial versus temporal deterministic wave breakup of nonlinearly coupled light waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 91(14), 143905.1-143905.4 [10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.143905].
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