We report the generation of complex soliton-like patterns in non-critically-phase-matched potassium niobate which occur in random spatial patterns from shot-to-shot. Up to five spots have been generated at input intensities ...

We show that the pump–to–signal power conversion efficiency of parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers made with periodically poled materials operating with multicolor spatial solitons can be significantly enhanced by employing ...

We report on a scheme which might make it practically possible to engineer the effective competing nonlinearities that on average govern the light propagation in quasi-phase-matching (QPM) gratings. Modulation of the QPM ...

The impact of temporal effects to the generation of multiple wave quadratic spatial solitons with pulsed light is shown. We examine soliton formation under conditions of second-harmonic generation but our conclusions are ...

We report the experimental observation of the formation of multiple optical quadratic solitons in a process mediated by the amplification of minute asymmetries in the diffraction properties of the input light. Experiments ...

We report the first experimental observation, to our knowledge, of the self-trapping of light in walk-off-compensating optical tandems. The experiment was conducted with picosecond light pulses in a ten-plate optically ...

The reflection of bulk quadratic solutions incident onto a quadratically nonlinear interface in periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate was observed. The interface consisted of the boundary between two quasi-phase-matched ...

The evolution of fundamental beams into quadratic spatial solitons was investigated in a periodically poled bulk KTiOPO4 crystal near and at phase matching. Various soliton properties, such as trapping efficiency as a ...

The second harmonic generation (SHG) tuning curves with temperature and angle of incidence were measured in periodically poled KTiOPO4 for narrow fundamental beams at intensities typical of quadratic soliton generation. ...

We put forward a novel strategy to achieve formation of fully three-dimensional light bullets. The new scheme is based on tandem structures where nonlinearity and group-velocity dispersion required for the self-trapping ...