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

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.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF OPTICS B-QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Krolikowski, W., Bang, O., Nikolov, N. I., Neshev, D., Wyller, J., Rasmussen, J. J., & Edmundson, D.

citation count

  • 330

complete list of authors

  • Krolikowski, W||Bang, O||Nikolov, NI||Neshev, D||Wyller, J||Rasmussen, JJ||Edmundson, D

publication date

  • May 2004