Optical Solitons with Tilted Wavefronts

Abstract

The propagation of nonresonant solitons with phase and group wavefronts tilted with respect to each other is studied. It is shown that the tilt of fronts leads to the redefinition of the group velocity dispersion, introducing an additional anomalous contribution to it. As a result, light temporal and spatiotemporal solitons can be formed at the normal dispersion of the group velocity and focusing nonlinearity, including the cases of absence of this dispersion. A spatiotemporal soliton is a structure that is extended along group fronts normally to the plane of polarization and is localized in all directions perpendicular to the direction of extension of the soliton.