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We derive the equations governing the motion of Kerr solitons in pair waveforms. Recent experiments in microresonators have studied a variety of interaction effects in multisoliton waveforms, including collisions and formation of soliton…

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A model of the optical media with a spatially structured Kerr nonlinearity is introduced. The nonlinearity strength is modulated by a set of singular peaks on top of a self-focusing or defocusing uniform background. The peaks may include a…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-28 Vitaly Lutsky , Boris A. Malomed

The optical Kerr micro-ring provides an ideal platform for the study of dissipative optical solitons. Dissipative solitons are localized waves produced by a precise equilibrium between dispersion and nonlinearity, as well as gain and loss.…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zijian Zhang , Chaoying Zhao

Many engineering structures are composed of weakly coupled sectors assembled in a cyclic and ideally symmetric configuration, which can be simplified as forced Duffing oscillators. In this paper, we study the emergence of localized states…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Papangelo , F. Fontanela , A. Grolet , M. Ciavarella , N. Hoffmann

The damped driven nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) has been used to understand a range of physical phenomena in diverse systems. Studying this equation in the context of optical hyper-parametric oscillators in anomalous-dispersion…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-07-19 Hossein Taheri , Pascal Del'Haye , Ali A. Eftekhar , Kurt Wiesenfeld , Ali Adibi

Solitons are striking manifestations of nonlinearity, encountered in diverse physical systems such as water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). In BECs, dark solitons emerge as exact stationary solutions of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Umut Tanyeri , Mehmet Atakan Gürkan , Ahmet Keleş , Mehmet Özgür Oktel

Soliton crystals are periodic patterns of multi-spot optical fields formed from either time or space entanglements of equally separated identical high-intensity pulses. These specific nonlinear optical structures have gained interest in…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-21 Rodrigues D. Dikande Bitha , Alain M. Dikande

The creation of stable 1D and 2D localized modes in lossy nonlinear media is a fundamental problem in optics and plasmonics. This article gives a short review of theoretical methods elaborated for this purpose, using localized gain applied…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-18 Boris A. Malomed

Motivated by the work of J.K.~Jang et al., Nat.~Commun.~{\bf 6}, 7370 (2015), where the authors experimentally tweeze cavity solitons in a passive loop of optical fiber, we study the amenability to tweezing of cavity solitons as the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-25 J. Rossi , Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli , R. Carretero-González , P. G. Kevrekidis

In this paper we analyze the existence, stability, dynamical formation and mobility properties of localized solutions in a one-dimensional system described by the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a linear point defect. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-03-31 F. Palmero , R. Carretero-González , J. Cuevas , P. G. Kevrekidis , W. Królikowski

In this paper, we revisit the investigation of solitary-wave interactions in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger model, both in the presence and absence of a parabolic trapping potential. While approximate dynamics, based on variational or similar…

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We introduce a system of two linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations (DNLSEs), with the coupling constant subject to a rapid temporal modulation. The model can be realized in bimodal Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC).…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-23 H. Susanto , P. G. Kevrekidis , F. Kh. Abdullaev , Boris A. Malomed

In the present work, we introduce a discrete formulation of the nonlinear Dirac equation in the form of a discretization of the Gross-Neveu model. The motivation for this discrete model proposal is both computational (near the continuum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-21 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena

We introduce a model of a passive optical cavity based on a novel variety of the two-dimensional Lugiato-Lefever equation, with a localized pump carrying intrinsic vorticity S, and the cubic or cubic-quintic nonlinearity. Up to S = 5,…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-04 Shatrughna Kumar , Wesley B. Cardoso , Boris A. Malomed

We demonstrate the existence of two species of stable bright solitons, fundamental and dipole ones, in one-dimensional self-defocusing nonlocal media, with the local value of nonlinearity coefficient having one or several minima and growing…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yingji He , Boris A. Malomed

The properties of the localized states of a two component Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a nonlinear periodic potential [nonlinear optical lattice] are investigated. We reveal the existence of new types of solitons and study their…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Kh. Abdullaev , A. Gammal , M. Salerno , Lauro Tomio

We study homoclinic snaking of one-dimensional, localised states on two-dimensional, bistable lattices via the method of exponential asymptotics. Within a narrow region of parameter space, fronts connecting the two stable states are pinned…

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We study effects of tight harmonic-oscillator confinement on the electromagnetic field in a laser cavity by solving the two-dimensional Lugiato-Lefever (2D LL) equation, taking into account self- focusing or defocusing nonlinearity, losses,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-26 Wesley B. Cardoso , Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed

Travelling solitary waves in the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (DNLSE) with saturable onsite nonlinearity are studied. A variational approximation (VA) for the solitary waves is derived in an analytical form.…

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