Abstract

We demonstrate numerically that the focusing of beams that correspond to laser modes into a phase-matchable second-order nonlinear optical medium can lead to the generation of a rich spectrum of quadratic solitons. We also show that the number of solitons generated can be explained by a simple model.

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Beam reshaping by use of spatial solitons in the quadratic nonlinear medium KTP

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