White-light solitons.
Optical spatial solitons made from incoherent white light were experimentally observed in 1997 by Mitchell and Segev [Nature (London) 387, 880 (1997)]. We present what is believed to be the first theory describing these solitons and find the characteristic features of their spatiotemporal coherence properties and their temporal power spectrum.
Buljan
Hrvoje
H
Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Segev
Mordechai
M
Soljacić
Marin
M
Efremidis
Nikolaos K
NK
Christodoulides
Demetrios N
DN