Self-guiding light in layered nonlinear media
- 15 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 25 (14), 1037-1039
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.25.001037
Abstract
We study the propagation of intense optical beams in layered Kerr media. With appropriate shapes, beams with a power close to the self-focusing threshold are shown to propagate over long distances as quasi-stationary waveguides in cubic media supporting a periodic nonlinear refractive index.Keywords
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