MULTISTABILITY OF 3-WAVE PARAMETRIC SELF-TRAPPING

Authors
BURYAK AV KIVSHAR YS
Citation
Av. Buryak et Ys. Kivshar, MULTISTABILITY OF 3-WAVE PARAMETRIC SELF-TRAPPING, Physical review letters, 78(17), 1997, pp. 3286-3289
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
78
Issue
17
Year of publication
1997
Pages
3286 - 3289
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)78:17<3286:MO3PS>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
We reveal that three-wave parametric mixing in a diffractive quadratic (or chi((2))) medium can lead to multistability of self-guided beams. Switching between different stable states of these multivalued spatia l solitary waves is also demonstrated.