Abstract
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and saturable media. Such beams are stable under self-defocusing and weak self-focusing, whereas for strong self-focusing they off-shoot solitons while their main lobe continues accelerating.
© 2011 Optical Society of America
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