Spatiotemporal airy light bullets in the linear and nonlinear regimes

We demonstrate the realization of intense Airy-Airy-Airy (Airy(3)) light bullets by combining a spatial Airy beam with an Airy pulse in time. The Airy(3) light bullets belong to a family of linear spatiotemporal wave packets that do not require any specific tuning of the material optical properties...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2010-12, Vol.105 (25), p.253901-253901, Article 253901
Main Authors: Abdollahpour, Daryoush, Suntsov, Sergiy, Papazoglou, Dimitrios G, Tzortzakis, Stelios
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Language:English
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Summary:We demonstrate the realization of intense Airy-Airy-Airy (Airy(3)) light bullets by combining a spatial Airy beam with an Airy pulse in time. The Airy(3) light bullets belong to a family of linear spatiotemporal wave packets that do not require any specific tuning of the material optical properties for their formation and withstand both diffraction and dispersion during their propagation. We show that the Airy(3) light bullets are robust up to the high intensity regime, since they are capable of healing the nonlinearly induced distortions of their spatiotemporal profile.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.105.253901