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We study nonlinear surface modes in two-dimensional {\em anisotropic} periodic photonic lattices and demonstrate that, in a sharp contrast to one-dimensional discrete surface solitons, the mode threshold power is lower at the surface, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Rodrigo A. Vicencio , Sergej Flach , Mario I. Molina , Yuri S. Kivshar

We address the properties of surface solitons supported by optical lattices imprinted in photorefractive media with asymmetric diffusion nonlinearity. Such solitons exist only in finite gaps of lattice spectrum. In contrast to latticeless…

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

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…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Olga V. Borovkova , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

We propose a simple dissipative system with purely cubic defocusing nonlinearity and nonuniform linear gain that can support stable localized dissipative vortex solitons with high topological charges without the utilization of competing…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-24 Chunyan Li , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

The existence and stability of defect solitons in parity-time (PT) symmetric optical lattices with nonlocal nonlinearity are reported. It is found that nonlocality can expand the stability region of defect solitons. For positive or zero…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-19 Sumei Hu , Xuekai Ma , Daquan Lu , Yizhou Zheng , Wei Hu

We study light localization at a phase-slip defect created by two semi-infinite mismatched identical arrays of coupled optical waveguides. We demonstrate that the nonlinear defect modes possess the specific properties of both nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Mario I. Molina , Yuri S. Kivshar

We report the coexistence and properties of stable compact localized states (CLSs) and discrete solitons (DSs) for nonlinear spinor waves on a flatband network with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The system can be implemented by means of a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 G. Gligorić , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadžievski , S. Flach , B. Malomed

In a benchmark dynamical-lattice model in three dimensions, the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation, we find discrete vortex solitons with various values of the topological charge $S$. Stability regions for the vortices with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis , R. Carretero-González

Fundamental solitons pinned to the interface between three semi-infinite one-dimensional nonlinear dynamical chains, coupled at a single site, are investigated. The light propagation in the respective system with the self-attractive on-site…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Stojanovic , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadzievski , B. A. Malomed

The stability of two-dimensional bright vortex solitons in a media with focusing cubic and defocusing quintic nonlinearities is investigated analytically and numerically. It is proved that above some critical beam powers not only one- and…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Davydova , A. I. Yakimenko

In the present work, we propose a new set of coherent structures that arise in nonlinear dynamical lattices with more than one components, namely interlaced solitons. These are waveforms in which in the relevant anti-continuum limit, i.e.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Cuevas , Q. E. Hoq , H. Susanto , P. G. Kevrekidis

Embedded solitons are exceptional modes in nonlinear-wave systems with the propagation constant falling in the system's propagation band. An especially challenging topic is seeking for such modes in nonlinear dynamical lattices (discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-17 Hadi Susanto , Boris A. Malomed

We study the existence, stability, and mobility of fundamental discrete solitons in two- and three-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger lattices with a combination of cubic self-focusing and quintic self-defocusing onsite nonlinearities.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-11 C. Chong , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , B. A. Malomed , P. G. Kevrekidis

Recent studies have demonstrated that defocusing cubic nonlinearity with local strength growing from the center to the periphery faster than $r^{D}$, in space of dimension $D$ with radial coordinate $r$, supports a vast variety of robust…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-26 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

The stability and collapse of fundamental unstaggered bright solitons in the discrete Schrodinger equation with the nonpolynomial on-site nonlinearity, which models a nearly one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a deep optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Gligoric , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadzievski , B. A. Malomed

Spatiotemporal solitons (STSs) are localized solitary waves in both space and time that involve complex linear and nonlinear processes. Optical STSs have been observed in various media, but they are difficult to be realized in multimode…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-07-20 Yao Wang , Shuo Yan , Jianqiu Xu , Yulong Tang

Discrete fundamental and dipole solitons are constructed, in an exact analytical form, in an array of linear waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer, which is composed of two nonlinear waveguides carrying equal gain and…

A model of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring optical lattice with atomic dissipations applied at a stationary or at a moving location on the ring is presented. The localized dissipation is shown to generate and stabilize both stationary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 Russell Campbell , Gian-Luca Oppo

We consider a model of Bose-Einstein condensates which combines a stationary optical lattice (OL) and periodic change of the sign of the scattering length (SL) due to the Feshbach-resonance management. Ordinary solitons and ones of the gap…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Arthur Gubeskys , Boris A. Malomed , Ilya M. Merhasin

We explore stability regions for solitons in the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a spatially confined region carrying a combination of self-focusing cubic and septimal terms, with a quintic one of either focusing or defocusing sign.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-02 H. Fabrelli , J. B. Sudharsan , R. Radha , A. Gammal , Boris A. Malomed