title: Spatial mode-locking of light bullets in planar waveguide arrays.
abstract: A theoretical proposal is presented for the generation of mode-locked light-bullets in planar waveguide arrays, extending the concept of time-domain mode-locking in waveguide arrays to spatial (transverse) mode-locking in slab waveguides. The model presented yields three-dimensional localized states that act as global attractors to the waveguide array system. Single pulse stationary and time-periodic solutions as well as the transition to multi-pulse solutions as a function of gain are observed to be stabilized in such a system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2420, USA. mowill@amath.washington.edu
authors.forename: Matthew O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: J Nathan
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Kutz
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity