Space-time bullet trains via modulation instability and nonlocal solitons.
We introduce the generation of dense trains of light-bullets in nonlocal nonlinear dielectrics. We exploit stable spatio-temporal self-trapped optical packets stemming from the interplay between local electronic and nonlocal reorientational nonlinearities, considering a seeded temporal modulation instability by specifically referring to nematic liquid crystals.
Peccianti
Marco
M
INRS-EMT, 1650 Blvd Lionel Boulet, Varennes (Québec), J3X 1S2 Canada. peccianti@emt.inrs.ca
Burgess
Ian B
IB
Assanto
Gaetano
G
Morandotti
Roberto
R
D003198:Computer Simulation; D008027:Light; D008029:Lighting / Q000379:methods*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation