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In this paper, an existence theory is established for ring-profiled optical vortex solitons. We consider such solitons in the context of an electromagnetic light wave propagating in a self-focusing nonlinear media and governed by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Luciano Medina

Spatial solitons can exist in various kinds of nonlinear optical resonators with and without amplification. In the past years different types of these localized structures such as vortices, bright, dark solitons and phase solitons have been…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Taranenko , G. Slekys , C. O. Weiss

We study two-component spatial optical solitons carrying an angular momentum and propagating in a self-focusing saturable nonlinear medium. When one of the components is small, such vector solitons can be viewed as a self-trapped vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose R. Salgueiro , Yuri S. Kivshar

We numerically investigate azimuthal modulation instability in an optical fiber supporting orbital angular momentum modes only, i.e. a vortex fiber, by means of the scalar multimode unidirectional pulse propagation equation. We demonstrate…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Bertrand Kibler , Pierre Béjot

Using a combination of the variation approximation (VA) and direct simulations, we consider the light transmission in nonlinearly amplified bulk media, taking into account the localization of the gain, i.e., the linear loss shaped as a…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. Skarka , N. B. Aleksić , H. Leblond , B. A. Malomed , D. Mihalache

We predict the existence of surface dark solitons at the interface between a self-defocusing nonlocal nonlinear medium and a linear medium. The fundamental and higher-order surface dark solitons can exist when the linear refractive index of…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-08 XingHui Gao , Luohong Zhou , ZhenJun Yang , Xuekai Ma , Daquan Lu , Wei Hu

We model discrete spatial solitons in a periodic nonlinear medium encompassing any degree of transverse non locality. Making a convenient reference to a widely used material -nematic liquid crystals-, we derive a new form of the discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Fratalocchi , Gaetano Assanto

We analyze the transverse instabilities of spatial bright solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media, both analytically and numerically. We demonstrate that the nonlocal nonlinear response leads to a dramatic suppression of the transverse…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 YuanYao Lin , Ray-Kuang Lee , Yuri S. Kivshar

The article summarizes the studies of wave fields in structured non-equilibrium media describing by means of nonlocal hydrodynamic models. Due to the symmetry properties of models, we derived the invariant wave solutions satisfying…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-05 V. A. Danylenko , S. I. Skurativskyi

We address the evolution of higher-order excited states, such as vortex and multi-hump solitons, in nonlocal media with synthetic, competing focusing and defocusing nonlinearities with different nonlocal transverse scales. We reveal that…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We have introduced a class of spiraling elliptic solitons in generic nonlocal nonlinear media. The spiraling elliptic solitons carry the orbital angular momentum. This class solitons are stable for any degree of nonlocality except for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-03-08 Guo Liang , Qian Shou , Qi Guo

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

Our analysis suggests strongly that stationary pulses exist in nonlinear media with second-, third-, and fourth-order dispersion. A theory, based on the variational approach, is developed for finding approximate parameters of such solitons.…

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We study the soliton mobility in nonlocal nonlinear media with an imprinted fading optical lattice. The results show that the transverse mobility of solitons varies with the lattice decay rate and the nonlocality degree, which provides an…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhiping Dai , Xiaohui Ling , Youwen Wang , Kaiming You

We review a number of results recently obtained in the area of constructing rotating solitons in a four dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime. Various models are examined, special attention being paid to the monopole-antimonopole and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugen Radu

We investigate the dynamics of the sine-Gordon solitons perturbed by spatiotemporal external forces. We prove the existence of internal (shape) modes of sine-Gordon solitons when they are in the presence of inhomogeneous space-dependent…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Gonzalez , A. Bellorin , L. E. Guerrero

We study the azimuthal modulational instability of vortices with different topological charges, in the focusing two-dimensional nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation. The method of studying the stability relies on freezing the radial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-11 R. M. Caplan , Q. E. Hoq , R. Carretero-González , P. G. Kevrekidis

We demonstrate that spatially inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinear landscapes with the nonlinearity coefficient growing toward the periphery as [1+abs(r)]**a support one- and two-dimensional fundamental and higher-order bright solitons, as…