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Three-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

We demonstrate the existence of stable three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons (STSs) in media with a nonlocal cubic nonlinearity. Fundamental (nonspinning) STSs forming one-parameter families are stable if their propagation constant exceeds a certain critical value, that is inversely proportional to the range of nonlocality of nonlinear response. All spinning three-dimensional STSs are found to be unstable.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0601054,
  title  = {Three-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media},
  author = {D. Mihalache and D. Mazilu and F. Lederer and B. A. Malomed and Y. V. Kartashov and L. -C. Crasovan and L. Torner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0601054},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 6 figures, accepted to PRE, Rapid Communications