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Light propagation through a nonlinear defect: symmetry breaking and controlled soliton emission
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Light propagation through a nonlinear defect: symmetry breaking and controlled soliton emission

Andrea Fratalocchi and Gaetano Assanto
Optics letters, Vol.31(10), pp.1489-1491
15/05/2006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.31.001489
PMID: 16642148

Abstract

We investigate the emission of solitons at a nonlinear longitudinal defect. We discuss the basic physics and introduce a novel approach to achieve complete nonlinear control of the process. Theoretical results are confirmed by numerical simulations.

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