Quasiperiodic Envelope Solitons
Carl Balslev Clausen, Yuri S. Kivshar, Ole Bang, Peter L. Christiansen
Abstract
We analyse nonlinear wave propagation and cascaded self-focusing due to second-harmonic generation in Fibbonacci optical superlattices and introduce a novel concept of nonlinear physics, the quasiperiodic soliton, which describes spatially localized self-trapping of a quasiperiodic wave. We point out a link between the quasiperiodic soliton and partially incoherent spatial solitary waves recently generated experimentally.