Linear optical bullets

✍ Scribed by Sergey A. Ponomarenko; Govind P. Agrawal

• Book ID: 104073219
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 226 KB
• Volume: 261
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-4018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.11.043

✦ Synopsis

We describe a class of spatio-temporal optical pulses that spread neither spatially nor temporarily in linear dispersive media over long propagation distances. These new spatio-temporal pulses, referred to as linear optical bullets, can have any spatio-temporal profile and temporal width, and they carry a finite amount of energy. We also discuss in detail a technique for the experimental realization of linear optical bullets.