Self-guiding light in layered nonlinear media
Luc BergéCommissariat à l’Energie Atomique–Direction des Applications Militaires/Ile de France, B.-P. 12, 91680 Bruyères-le-Châtel, FranceVladimir MezentsevOptics and Fluid Dynamics Department, Risø National Laboratory, 4000 Roskilde, DenmarkJ. Juul RasmussenOptics and Fluid Dynamics Department, Risø National Laboratory, 4000 Roskilde, DenmarkP. L. ChristiansenInstitute for Mathematical Modelling, Danish Technical University, 2800 Lyngby, DenmarkYu. B. GaĭdideĭInstitute for Mathematical Modelling, Danish Technical University, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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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.
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