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Stabilization of two-dimensional solitons in cubic-saturable nonlinear lattices

Optics 2015-05-18 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We consider soliton dynamics and stability in a nonlinear lattice formed by alternating domains with focusing cubic and saturable nonlinearities. We find that in such lattices solitons centered on cubic domains may be stabilized even in two-dimensional geometries, in spite of their intrinsic catastrophic instability in the absence of the lattice. Solitons centered on saturable domains are always unstable.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4771,
  title  = {Stabilization of two-dimensional solitons in cubic-saturable nonlinear lattices},
  author = {Olga V. Borovkova and Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Lluis Torner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4771},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Physical Review A