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We study spatial optical solitons in a one-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal created by an array of thin-film nonlinear waveguides, the so-called Dirac-comb nonlinear lattice. We analyze modulational instability of the extended…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We construct a variety of novel localized states with distinct topological structures in the 3D discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation. The states can be created in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in strong optical lattices, and…

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We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-01 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

Exact solutions to a nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattice with a saturable nonlinearity are reported. For finite lattices we find two different standing-wave-like solutions, and for an infinite lattice we find a localized soliton-like…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Avinash Khare , K. O. Rasmussen , M. R. Samuelsen , A. Saxena

We report results of a systematic numerical analysis of interactions between three-dimensional (3D) fundamental solitons, performed in the framework of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE) with the cubic-quintic (CQ) nonlinearity,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-08-01 Gennadiy Burlak , Boris A. Malomed

We study the existence and stability of ground state solutions or solitons to a nonlinear stationary equation on hyperbolic space. The method of concentration compactness applies and shows that the results correlate strongly to those of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Hans Christianson , Jeremy Marzuola

This work deals with soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with cubic and quintic nonlinearities. We extend the procedure put forward in a recent Letter and we solve the equation in the presence of linear background, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 A. T. Avelar , D. Bazeia , W. B. Cardoso

Discrete solitons in the Ablowitz-Ladik (AL) and discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) equations with damping and strong rapid drive are investigated. The averaged equations have the forms of the parametric AL and DNLS equations. A new…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Josselin Garnier , Fatkhulla Abdullaev , Mario Salerno

We study the dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) localized modes in the nonlinear lattice described by the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation, including a local linear or nonlinear defect. Discrete solitons pinned to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-09 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Boris A. Malomed

We consider a two-dimensional (2D) two-component spinor system with cubic attraction between the components and intra-species self-repulsion, which may be realized in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, as well as in a quasi-equilibrium…

We introduce a model of one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) optical media with the $\chi ^{(2)}$ nonlinearity whose local strength is subject to cusp-shaped spatial modulation, $\chi ^{(2)}\sim r^{-\alpha }$, with $\alpha >0$, which can be…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vitaly Lutsky , Boris A. Malomed

In the present work we explore the potential of models of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DNLS) type to support spatially localized and temporally quasiperiodic solutions on top of a finite background. Such solutions are rigorously…

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We have found various families of two-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in quadratically nonlinear waveguide arrays. The families of unstaggered odd, even and twisted stationary solutions are thoroughly characterized and their stability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhiyong Xu , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lucian-Cornel Crasovan , Dumitru Mihalache , Lluis Torner

In this paper we present some recent results concerning the ex- istence, the stability and the dynamics of solitons occurring in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation when the parameter h -> 0. We focus on the role played by the Energy and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Vieri Benci , Marco G. Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

The interaction of moving discrete solitons with a linear Gaussian defect is investigated. Solitons with profiles varying from hyperbolic secant to exponentially localized are considered such that the mobility of soliton is maintained; the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-07-17 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Chandroth P. Jisha , A. S. Rodrigues

We introduce multi-soliton sets in the two-dimensional medium with the second-harmonic-generating nonlinearity subject to spatial modulation in the form of a triangle of singular peaks. Various families of symmetric and asymmetric sets are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-14 Vitaly Lutsky , Boris A. Malomed

We study two-dimensional (2D) solitons in the mean-field models of ultracold gases with long-range quadrupole-quadrupole interaction (QQI) between particles. The condensate is loaded into a deep optical-lattice (OL) potential, therefore the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-18 Yongyao Li , Jingfeng Liu , Wei Pang , Boris A. Malomed

We characterize the full family of soliton solutions sitting over a background plane wave and ruled by the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the regime where a quintic focusing term represents a saturation of the cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Crosta , A. Fratalocchi , S. Trillo

We introduce a 2D network built of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimers with on-site cubic nonlinearity, the gain and loss elements of the dimers being linked by parallel square-shaped lattices. The system may be realized as a set of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhaopin Chen , Jingfeng Liu , Shenhe Fu , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed