Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

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 …

[Књига][B] Optical solitons: from fibers to photonic crystals

YS Kivshar, GP Agrawal - 2003 - books.google.com
The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic communications is very
important to the future of communications. Since the advent of computer networking and …

Two-dimensional multipole solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

C Rotschild, M Segev, Z Xu, YV Kartashov, L Torner… - Optics letters, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We present the experimental observation of scalar multipole solitons in highly nonlocal
nonlinear media, including dipole, tripole, quadrupole, and necklace-type solitons …

Optical spatial solitons: historical perspectives

GIA Stegeman, DN Christodoulides… - IEEE Journal of …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical spatial solitons are self-trapped optical beams that exist by virtue of the balance
between diffraction and nonlinearity. They propagate and interact with one another while …

Two-color vector solitons in nonlocal media

A Alberucci, M Peccianti, G Assanto, A Dyadyusha… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
We investigate the interaction between two beams differing in wavelength and the properties
of dual-frequency spatial solitons in nonlocal birefringent reorientational media. We report …

Multi-stable multipole solitons in competing nonlinearity media

D Liu, Y Gao, D Fan, L Zhang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate the properties of two-dimensional multipole solitons supported by the
harmonic-Gaussian potential in a medium with competing cubic-quintic nonlinearity. The …

Dipole and quadrupole solitons in optically induced two‐dimensional photonic lattices: theory and experiment

J Yang, I Makasyuk, A Bezryadina… - Studies in applied …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Dipole and quadrupole solitons in a two‐dimensional photorefractive optical lattice are
investigated both theoretically and experimentally. It is shown theoretically that out‐of‐phase …

Multipole vector solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

YV Kartashov, L Torner, VA Vysloukh, D Mihalache - Optics letters, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We show that multipole solitons can be made stable via vectorial coupling in bulk nonlocal
nonlinear media. Such vector solitons are composed of mutually incoherent nodeless and …

Self-trap** of light in a two-dimensional photonic lattice

ZH Musslimani, J Yang - Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We study wave propagation in a two-dimensional photonic lattice with focusing Kerr
nonlinearity, and report on the existence of various nonlinear localized structures in the form …