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Group leader - Professor Dumitru Mihalache


Nonlinear Optics and Photonics Group is part of the Department of Theoretical Physics at The National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering “Horia Hulubei”


In the course of the last decade, a new level of understanding has been achieved about conditions for the existence, stability and excitation of solitary waves in both conservative (Hamiltonian) and dissipative nonlinear optical media.
Novel results in the area of spatiotemporal optical solitons (light bullets) have been obtained in both phenomenological models and those obtained from the first principles (first of all, the one based on quadratic optical nonlinearities). Prof. Mihalache has published in J. Opt. B an overview of spatiotemporal optical solitons in collaboration with Prof. B. A. Malomed, Tel-Aviv University, Prof. F. Wise, Cornell University, and Prof. L. Torner, ICFO-Institute de Ciencies Fotoniques, Barcelona). Recently, in collaboration with Prof. H. Leblond, Angers University, France, an adequate description of few-cycle optical solitons beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation was given:

B. A. Malomed, D. Mihalache, F. Wise, and L. Torner, J. Opt. B Quantum Semiclassical Opt. 7, R53-R72 (2005).

H. Leblond and D. Mihalache, Phys. Rev. A 79, 063835 (2009).

H. Leblond, D. Kremer, and D. Mihalache, Phys. Rev. A 80, 053812 (2009).

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