Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications

Mutual self-focusing and modulational instability in cold atomic vapors

Mark E. Saffman, Yingxue Wang

Published Jan 1, 2005• 0 citations

Abstract

We discuss mutual self-focusing of light and cold atoms. Stable stationary solutions corresponding to atom-optical solitons are found as well as modulational instability under conditions of optical self-defocusing.

DOI: 10.1364/nlgw.2005.fb1

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