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We elucidate the properties of mixed-gap vector surface solitons supported by the interface between a uniform medium and an optical lattice imprinted in a Kerr-type nonlinear media. The components of such mixed-gap solitons emerge from…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Fangwei Ye , Lluis Torner

We report on trapped pulse generation in birefringent microstructured optical fiber. Linearly polarized fs pulses are injected into the microstructured fiber in anomalous dispersion regime. We observed experimentally that soliton pulse…

We investigate an optically trapped exciton-polariton condensate and observe temporal coherence beyond 1~ns duration. Due to the reduction of the spatial overlap with the thermal reservoir of excitons, the coherence time of the trapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 K. Orfanakis , A. F. Tzortzakakis , D. Petrosyan , P. G. Savvidis , H. Ohadi

We consider dark solitons and their stability in spin-orbit coupled polariton condensates. The system supports spinor solitons of two types: conventional (symmetric) dark solitons and asymmetric half-dark solitons. They demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We study a new class of vector solitons in trapped Nonlinear Schrodinger systems modelling the dynamics of coupled light beams in GRIN Kerr media and atomic mixtures in Bose-Einstein condensates. These solitons exist for different spatial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Vadym Vekslerchik

We find a new type of optical vector soliton that originates from trapping of a dipole mode by a soliton-induced waveguide. These solitons, which appear as a consequence of the vector nature of the two component system, are more stable than…

The properties of vector vortex beams in vertical-cavity-surface emitting lasers with frequency-selective feedback is investigated. They are interpreted as high-order vortex solitons with a spatially non-uniform, but locally linear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-10-27 T. Ackemann , T. Guillet , H. Pulham , G. -L. Oppo

We reveal the existence of slowly-decaying dark solitons in the radiation build-up dynamics of bright pulses in all-normal dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers, numerically modeled in the framework of a generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-06 R. I. Woodward , E. J. R. Kelleher

We investigate the formation of dark vector localized structures in the presence of nonlinear polarization mode coupling in optical resonators subject to a coherent optical injection in the normal dispersion regime. This simple device is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-08 B. Kostet , Y. Soupart , K. Panajotov , M. Tlidi

We have investigated mixed-gap vector solitons involving incoherently coupled fundamental and dipole components in a parity-time (PT) symmetric lattice with saturable nonlinearity. For the focusing case, vector solitons emerge from the…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-22 Lei Li , Xiaoguang Yu , Xing Zhu , Baiyuan Yang , Qianglin Hu , Xiaobing Luo

We report the first experimental observation of vector surface solitons, which form at the edge and in the corner of two-dimensional laser-written waveguide arrays. These elliptically polarized vector states are composed of two orthogonally…

We report an experimental observation of the collision between a linear wave propagating in the anomalous dispersion region of an optical fiber and a dark soliton located in the normal dispersion region. This interaction results in the…

Optical trapping and manipulation of neutral particles has led to a variety of experiments from stretching DNA-molecules to trapping and cooling of neutral atoms. An exciting recent outgrowth of the technique is an experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. T. Hammack , M. Griswold , L. V. Butov , L. E. Smallwood , A. L. Ivanov , A. C. Gossard

The possibility of coherent population trapping in two electron states with aligned spins (ortho-system) is evidenced. From the analysis of a three-level atomic system containing two electrons, and driven by the two laser fields needed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Mompart , R. Corbalan , L. Roso

I study vector solitons involving two incoherently-coupled field components in periodic PT-symmetric optical lattices. The specific symmetry of the lattice imposes the restrictions on the symmetry of available vector soliton states. While…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We consider a possible technique for mode-locking an atom laser, based on the generation of a dark soliton in a ring-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate, with repulsive atomic interactions. The soliton is a kink, with angular momentum per…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter D. Drummond , Antonios Eleftheriou , Kerson Huang , Karen V. Kheruntsyan

This letter reports experimental results on a new type of soliton: the random temporal dark soliton. One excites an incoherent large-amplitude propagating spin-wave packet in a ferromagnetic film strip with a repulsive, instantaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 Wei Tong , Mingzhong Wu , Lincoln D. Carr , Boris A. Kalinikos

The article provides a survey of (chiefly, theoretical) results obtained for self-trapped modes (solitons) in various models of one-dimensional optical waveguides based on a pair of parallel guiding cores, which combine the linear…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-18 Boris A. Malomed

With the increased transverse mode degrees of freedom, spatiotemporal mode-locked (STML) fiber lasers exhibit more intricate and richer nonlinear dynamics, making them an ideal platform for studying complex nonlinear phenomena. However,…

We show that the nonlinear polarization dynamics of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser placed into an external cavity leads to the formation of temporal vectorial dissipative solitons. These solitons arise as cycles in the…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-09 M. Marconi , J. Javaloyes , S. Barland , S. Balle , M. Giudici