We investigate experimentally the competition between spatial and temporal breakup due to modulational instability in χ(2) nonlinear mixing. The modulation of the wave packets caused by the energy exchange between fundamental and second-harmonic components is found to be the prevailing trigger mechanism which, according to the relative weight of diffraction and dispersion, leads to the appearance of a multisoliton pattern in the low-dimensional spatial or temporal domain.

Spatial versus Temporal Deterministic Wave Breakup of Nonlinearly Coupled Light Waves

TRILLO, Stefano;
2003

Abstract

We investigate experimentally the competition between spatial and temporal breakup due to modulational instability in χ(2) nonlinear mixing. The modulation of the wave packets caused by the energy exchange between fundamental and second-harmonic components is found to be the prevailing trigger mechanism which, according to the relative weight of diffraction and dispersion, leads to the appearance of a multisoliton pattern in the low-dimensional spatial or temporal domain.
2003
Salerno, D.; Minardi, S.; Trull, J.; Varanavicius, A.; Tomasauskas, G.; Valiulis, G.; Trillo, Stefano; Piskarskas, A.; DI TRAPANI, P.
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