Nonlinearity Management in Optics: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation

Abstract

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.

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

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