Stable three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in a two-dimensional phototnic lattice

Abstract

We investigate the existence and stability of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in self-focusing cubic Kerr-type optical media with an imprinted two-dimensional harmonic transverse modulation of the refractive index. We demonstrate that two-dimensional photonic Kerr-type nonlinear lattices can support stable one-parameter families of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons provided that their energy is within a certain interval and the strength of the lattice potential, which is proportional to the refractive index modulation depth, is above a certain threshold value.