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Spatial Optical Solitons due to Multistep Cascading

Yuri S. Kivshar, Tristram J. Alexander, Solomon Saltiel

patt-solarXiv:patt-sol/9904008

Abstract

We introduce a novel class of parametric optical solitons supported simultaneously by two second-order nonlinear cascading processes, second-harmonic generation and sum-frequency mixing. We obtain, analytically and numerically, the solutions for three-wave spatial solitons and show that the presence of an additional cascading mechanism can change dramatically the properties and stability of two-wave quadratic solitary waves.

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