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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 19, Issue 23, Pages 23132-23139Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023132
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- European Research Council (ERC)
- Israel-USA Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
- Israel Science Foundation
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We study accelerating and decelerating shape-preserving temporal Airy wave-packets propagating in dispersive media. We explore the effects of causality, and find that, whereas decelerating pulses can asymptotically reach zero group velocity, pulses that accelerate towards infinite group velocity inevitably break up, after a specific critical point. The trajectories and the features of causal pulses are analyzed, along with the requirements for the existence of the critical point and experimental schemes for its observation. Finally, we show that causality imposes similar effects on accelerating pulses in the presence of local Kerr-like nonlinearities. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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