Stability of multi-hump optical solitons
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2009-10-31 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We demonstrate that, in contrast with what was previously believed, multi-hump solitary waves can be stable. By means of linear stability analysis and numerical simulations, we investigate the stability of two- and three-hump solitary waves governed by incoherent beam interaction in a saturable medium, providing a theoretical background for the experimental results reported by M. Mitchell, M. Segev, and D. Christodoulides [Phys. Rev. Lett. v. 80, p. 4657 (1998)].
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@article{arxiv.patt-sol/9905006,
title = {Stability of multi-hump optical solitons},
author = {Elena A. Ostrovskaya and Yuri S. Kivshar and Dmitry V. Skryabin and William J. Firth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:patt-sol/9905006},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in PRL