Highly-asymmetric soliton complexes in parabolic optical lattices
Optics
2009-11-13 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We introduce multipole soliton complexes in optical lattices induced by nondiffracting parabolic beams. Despite the symmetry-breaking dictated by the curvature of the lattice channels, we find that complex, asymmetric higher-order states can be stable. The unique topology of parabolic lattices affords new types of soliton motion: single solitons launched into the lattice with nonzero transverse momentum perform periodic oscillations along parabolic paths.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.2089,
title = {Highly-asymmetric soliton complexes in parabolic optical lattices},
author = {Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor V. Vysloukh and Lluis Torner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.2089},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters