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Theory of Self-Trapped Spatially Incoherent Light Beams
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We present a modal theory of self-trapping spatially incoherent light beams in any general nonlinear media. We find that a self-trapped incoherent beam induces a multimode waveguide which guides the beam itself by multiply populating the guided modes. The self-trapping process alters the statistics of the incoherent beam, rendering it localized. We find the conditions for self-trapping (``existence region'' in parameter space) and the correlation function of the incoherent self-trapped beam.
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- Authors
- Mitchell, M., Segev, M., Coskun, T. H., & Christodoulides, D. N.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1997-12-22
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 25
- Pages
- 4990-4993
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2009699471
- Cited by
- 242
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 11.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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