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We address vortex solitons supported by optical lattices featuring modulation of both the linear and nonlinear refractive indices. We find that when the modulation is out-of-phase the competition between both effects results in remarkable…

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We theoretically investigate the transmission dynamics of coherent matter wave pulses across finite optical lattices in both the linear and the nonlinear regimes. The shape and the intensity of the transmitted pulse are found to strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Iacopo Carusotto , Davide Embriaco , Giuseppe C. La Rocca

Solitons are self-sustained wavepackets that occur in many physical systems. Their recent demonstration in optical microresonators has provided a new platform for study of nonlinear optical physics with practical implications for…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-24 Xu Yi , Qi-Fan Yang , Ki Youl Yang , Kerry Vahala

Oscillating tails of dispersion-managed optical fiber system are studied for strong dispersion map in the framework of path-averaged Gabitov-Turitsyn equation. The small parameter of the analytical theory is the inverse time. An exponential…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Pavel M. Lushnikov

We report results for solitons in models of waveguides with focusing or defocusing saturable nonlinearity and a parity-time(PT )-symmetric complex-valued external potential of the Scarf-II type. The model applies to the nonlinear wave…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-11 Pengfei Li , Dumitru Mihalache , Boris A. Malomed

Solitons are non-dispersive wave solutions that arise in a diverse range of nonlinear systems, stablised by a focussing or defocussing nonlinearity. First observed in shallow water, solitons have subsequently been studied in many other…

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A photonic crystal microcavity with the liquid crystal resonant layer tunable by heating has been implemented. The multiple vanishing resonant lines corresponding to optical bound states in the continuum are observed. The abrupt behaviour…

Topological transitions are fundamental phenomena in electronics, photonics, and quantum technologies. However, the scalability and tunability of Topological transitions in these systems have still been constrained by their material…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Bo Tian , Xi Zhang , Ruitao Wu , Yuquan Zhang , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

We report on existence and properties of discrete gap solitons in zigzag arrays of alternating waveguides with positive and negative refractive indices. Zigzag quasi-one-dimensional configuration of waveguide array introduces strong…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander A. Dovgiy , Ilya S. Besedin

We examine the existence and stability of nonlinear discrete vortex solitons in a square lattice when the standard discrete Laplacian is replaced by a fractional version. This creates a new, effective site-energy term, and a coupling among…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-19 Cristian Mejía-Cortés , Mario I. Molina

We study the optical properties of crystals with spatial dispersion and show that the usual Fresnel approach becomes invalid near frequencies where the group velocity of the wave packets inside the crystal vanishes. Near these special…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 Ch. Helm , L. N. Bulaevskii

We demonstrate the first fully controlled generation of immobile and slow spatial gap solitons in nonlinear periodic systems with band-gap spectra, and reveal the key features of gap solitons which distinguish them from conventional…

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We use semiclassical Hamiltonian optics to investigate the propagation of light rays through two-dimensional photonic crystals when slow spatial modulation of the lattice parameters induces mixed stable-chaotic ray dynamics. This modulation…

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Optical vortices are phase singularities nested in electromagnetic waves that constitute a fascinating source of phenomena in the physics of light and display deep similarities to their close relatives, quantized vortices in superfluids and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Anton S. Desyatnikov , Lluis Torner , Yuri S. Kivshar

It is shown that the pair plasmas with small temperature asymmetry can support existence of localized as well as de-localized optical vortex solitons. Coexistence of such solitons is possible due to peculiar form of saturating nonlinearity…

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We calculate the dynamical fluctuation spectrum of electronic spins in a semiconductor under a steady-state illumination by light containing polarization squeezing correlations. Taking into account quasi-particle lifetime and spin…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eran Ginossar , Yehoshua Levinson , Shimon Levit

We demonstrate ultrafast all-optical deflection of spatial solitons in an AlGaAs slab waveguide using 190 fs, 1550 nm pulses which are used to generate and deflect the spatial soliton. The steering beam is focused onto the top of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Hübner , J. S. Aitchison , H. M. van Driel

A model including two nonlinear chains with linear and nonlinear couplings between them, and opposite signs of the discrete diffraction inside the chains, is introduced. For [$\chi ^{(3)}$] nonlinearity, the model finds two different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , Z. Musslimani

Driven optical cavities containing a nonlinear medium support stable dissipative solitons, cavity solitons, in the form of bright or dark spots of light on a uniformly-lit background. Broadening effects due to diffraction or group velocity…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Gian-Luca Oppo , William J. Firth