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Power-dependent soliton steering in thermal nonlinear media

Optics 2015-05-14 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We address the existence and properties of optical solitons excited in thermal nonlinear media with a transverse refractive index gradient. We show that in such a geometry one can generate controllable switching from surface soliton propagating near the sample edges to bulk solitons. Beam steering associated to the different soliton output locations can be achieved by varying the input light intensity.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3071,
  title  = {Power-dependent soliton steering in thermal nonlinear media},
  author = {Fangwei Ye and Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Bambi Hu and Lluis Torner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3071},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Optics Letters