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Solitons, the distinct balance between nonlinearity and dispersion, provide a route toward ultrafast electromagnetic pulse shaping, high-harmonic generation, real-time image processing, and RF photonic communications. Here we newly explore…

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We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennadiy Burlak , Zhaopin Chen , Boris A. Malomed

Microresonator frequency combs, essential for future integrated optical systems, rely on dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a single microresonator to achieve coherent frequency comb generation. Recent advances in the nanofabrication of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-14 Savyaraj Deshmukh , Aleksandr Tusnin , Alexey Tikan , Tobias J. Kippenberg , Tobias M. Schneider

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

Soliton microcombs based on Kerr nonlinearity in microresonators have been a prominent miniaturized coherent light source. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate the existence of Kerr solitons in an optomechanical microresonator, for…

Solitons are self-reinforcing localized wave packets arising from a balance of linear and nonlinear effects. This definition encompasses the interplay of nonlinear gain and loss, leading to the concept of dissipative solitons that has been…

We consider a lattice equation (Salerno model) combining onsite self-focusing and intersite self-defocusing cubic terms, which may describe a Bose-Einstein condensate of dipolar atoms trapped in a strong periodic potential. In the continuum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gomez-Gardenes , B. A. Malomed , L. M. Floria , A. R. Bishop

We consider a new class of periodic solutions to the Lugiato-Lefever equations (LLE) that govern the electromagnetic field in a microresonator cavity. Specifically, we rigorously characterize the stability and dynamics of the Jacobi…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-07-04 Chang Sun , Travis Askham , J. Nathan Kutz

Solitons are universal nonlinear excitations that appear in settings as varied as optics, water waves, and quantum gases [1-5]. While reduced models of soliton dynamics are well established, their validity and dynamical behaviour in…

The optical spatial solitons with ellipse-shaped spots have generally been considered to be a result of either linear or nonlinear anisotropy. In this paper, we introduce a class of spiraling elliptic solitons in the nonlocal nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-08-02 Guo Liang , Qian Shou , Qi Guo

We introduce a general model which augments the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation by nonlinear-diffraction terms competing with the linear diffraction. The new terms contain two irreducible parameters and admit a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Shen , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , Boris A. Malomed

The generation of high-intensity optical fields from harmonic-wave photons, interacting via a cross-phase modulation with dark solitons both propagating in a Kerr nonlinear medium, is examined. The focus is on a pump consisting of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-08 E. Chenui Aban , Alain M. Dikande

We introduce a setting based on the one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) with the self-focusing (SF) cubic term modulated by a singular function of the coordinate, |x|^{-a}. It may be additionally combined with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Olga V. Borovkova , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed

We present a stability analysis of the Lugiato-Lefever model for Kerr optical frequency combs in whispering gallery mode resonators pumped in the anomalous dispersion regime. This article is the second part of a research work whose first…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-08-13 Irina Balakireva , Aurélien Coillet , Cyril Godey , Yanne K. Chembo

The bright soliton in optical fiber is generally investigated via its spatial evolution in the time domain, where its waveform is considered in many studies. To be consistent with the well-established picture of the dynamics of solitons in…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi Tang , Wei Wang

The emergence of confined structures and pattern formation are exceptional manifestations of concurring nonlinear interactions found in a variety of physical, chemical and biological systems[1]. Optical solitons are a hallmark of extreme…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-29 Felix Kurtz , Claus Ropers , Georg Herink

Soliton dynamics in coupled Kerr microcavities is an important aspect of frequency comb technologies, with applications in optical communication and precision metrology. We investigate a minimal system consisting of two nearly identical…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Daria A. Dolinina , Dmitry V. Turaev , Andrei G. Vladimirov

Soliton molecules are the manifestation of attractive and repulsive interaction between optical pulses mediated by a nonlinear medium. However, the formation and breakup of soliton molecules are difficult to observe due to the transient…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-12 Shuqian Sun , Zhixing Lin , Wei Li , Ninghua Zhu , Ming Li

Optical soliton molecules are bound states of solitons that arise from the balance between attractive and repulsive effects. Having been observed in systems ranging from optical fibers to mode-locked lasers, they provide insights into the…

This concise review aims to provide a summary of the most relevant recent experimental and theoretical results for solitons, i.e., self-trapped bound states of nonlinear waves, in two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) media. In comparison…

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