Observation of the Townes soliton

K.D. Moll; Alexander L. Gaeta

doi:10.1364/NLO.2002.TuC1

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications
OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2002),
paper TuC1
•https://doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2002.TuC1

Observation of the Townes soliton

K.D. Moll and Alexander L. Gaeta

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications 2002

Wailea, Maui, Hawaii United States
29 July–2 August 2002
ISBN: 1-55752-721-0

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K. D. Moll and A. L. Gaeta, "Observation of the Townes soliton," in Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications, A. Sawchuk, ed., Vol. 79 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (Optica Publishing Group, 2002), paper TuC1.

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Abstract

We demonstrate that when a laser beam undergoes self-focusing collapse the spatial profile always evolves into the same cylindrically symmetric shape, known as the Townes soliton, regardless of the shape (e.g. elliptical, noisy) of the input beam profile.

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