Spatiotemporal optical solitons

BA Malomed, D Mihalache, F Wise… - Journal of Optics B …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In the course of the past several years, a new level of understanding has been achieved
about conditions for the existence, stability, and generation of spatiotemporal optical …

Optical solitons due to quadratic nonlinearities: from basic physics to futuristic applications

AV Buryak, P Di Trapani, DV Skryabin, S Trillo - Physics Reports, 2002 - Elsevier
We present an overview of nonlinear phenomena related to optical quadratic solitons—
intrinsically multi-component localized states of light, which can exist in media without …

Optical vortices and vortex solitons

AS Desyatnikov, YS Kivshar, L Torner - Progress in optics, 2005 - Elsevier
In physics, wave propagation is traditionally analyzed by means of regular solutions of wave
equations. However, solutions of wave equations in two and three dimensions often possess …

Dissipative solitons

HG Purwins, HU Bödeker, S Amiranashvili - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The present review summarizes experimental and theoretical work dealing with self-
organized solitary localized structures (LSs) that are observed in spatially extended …

[BOOK][B] Computing in nonlinear media and automata collectives

A Adamatzky - 2001 - taylorfrancis.com
Computing in Nonlinear Media and Automata Collectives presents an account of new ways
to design massively parallel computing devices in advanced mathematical models, such as …

Three-dimensional spinning solitons in dispersive media with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity

A Desyatnikov, A Maimistov, B Malomed - Physical Review E, 2000 - APS
We study spatiotemporal three-dimensional bright solitons in optical media whose non-
linear response includes third-and fifth-order terms. By means of numerical simulations …

Families of Bragg-grating solitons in a cubic–quintic medium

J Atai, BA Malomed - Physics Letters A, 2001 - Elsevier
We investigate the existence and stability of solitons in an optical waveguide equipped with
a Bragg grating (BG) in which nonlinearity contains both cubic and quintic terms. The model …

Stability of Bragg grating solitons in a cubic–quintic nonlinear medium with dispersive reflectivity

S Dasanayaka, J Atai - Physics Letters A, 2010 - Elsevier
We investigate the existence and stability of Bragg grating solitons in a cubic–quintic
medium with dispersive reflectivity. It is found that the model supports two disjoint families of …

Stable spatiotemporal spinning solitons in a bimodal cubic-quintic medium

D Mihalache, D Mazilu, I Towers, BA Malomed… - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
We investigate the formation of stable spatiotemporal three-dimensional (3D) solitons (“light
bullets”) with internal vorticity (“spin”) in a bimodal system described by coupled cubic …

Modulational instability in fiber Bragg grating with non-Kerr nonlinearity

K Porsezian, K Senthilnathan… - IEEE journal of quantum …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the phenomenon of modulation instability (MI) and its
associated gain spectra in Bragg grating (BG) structure for generating the ultrashort pulses …