Space-Time Bullet Trains via modulation instability and nonlocal solitons


M. Peccianti, I. B. Burgess, G. Assanto and R. Morandotti

Opt. Express 18 (6), 593441 (2010)

Abstract:

We introduce the generation of dense trains of light-bullets in nonlocal nonlinear dielectrics. We exploit stable spatio-temporal selftrapped optical packets stemming from the interplay between local electronic and nonlocal reorientational nonlinearities, considering a seeded temporal modulation instability by specifically referring to nematic liquid crystals