Modulational instability, solitons and beam propogation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media.

Bang, Ole; Nikolov, Nikola; Neshev, Dragomir; Wyller, J; Rasmussen, Per Dalgaard; Edmundson, Darran; Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Modulational instability, solitons and beam propogation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media.

Date

2004

Authors

Bang, Ole

Nikolov, Nikola

Neshev, Dragomir

Wyller, J

Rasmussen, Per Dalgaard

Edmundson, Darran

Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Publisher

Institute of Physics Publishing

Abstract

We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of nonlocality on the modulational instability of plane waves, the collapse of finite-size beams, and the formation and interaction of spatial solitons.