Rotating optical soliton clusters
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We introduce the concept of soliton clusters -- multi-soliton bound states in a homogeneous bulk optical medium, and reveal a key physical mechanism for their stabilization associated with a staircase-like phase distribution that induces a net angular momentum and leads to cluster rotation. The ringlike soliton clusters provide a nontrivial generalization of the concepts of two-soliton spiraling, optical vortex solitons, and necklace-type optical beams.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0112039,
title = {Rotating optical soliton clusters},
author = {Anton S. Desyatnikov and Yuri S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0112039},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures