Optical Solitons in Periodic Media with Resonant and Off-Resonant Nonlinearities

Details Optical Solitons in Periodic Media with Resonant and Off-Resonant Nonlinearities Optical Solitons in Periodic Media with Resonant and Off-Resonant Nonlinearities

2000-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0007007v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

Review paper submitted to `Progress in Optics'. 48 pages, 16 figures

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The properties of optical solitons in periodic nonlinear media are reviewed. The emphasis is on solitons in periodically refractive media (Bragg gratings) incorporating a periodic set of thin layers of two-level systems resonantly interacting with the field. Such media support a variety of bright and dark `gap solitons' propagating in the band gaps of the Bragg gratings, as well as their multi - dimensional analogs (light bullets). These novel gap solitons differ substantially from their counterparts in periodic media with either cubic or quadratic off-resonant nonlinearities.

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