White-light solitons
- 15 July 2003
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 28 (14), 1239-1241
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.28.001239
Abstract
Optical spatial solitons made from incoherent white light were experimentally observed in 1997 by Mitchell and Segev [Nature (London) 387, 880 (1997)]. We present what is believed to be the first theory describing these solitons and find the characteristic features of their spatiotemporal coherence properties and their temporal power spectrum.Keywords
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