Boundary effects on the dynamics of higher-order optical spatial solitons in nonlocal thermal media

Daniel Buccoliero*, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Yuri S. Kivshar

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    Abstract

    We study theoretically the propagation of higher-order two-dimensional spatial solitons in optical media with nonlocal thermal nonlinear response. We show that these localized states experience complex dynamics including transformations between solitons of different symmetries which depend strongly on the geometry of a nonlinear sample. Boundaries exert repulsive forces on a soliton and, depending on its initial position relative to the boundaries, we observe transverse motion of a beam as a whole across the sample, effectively facilitating transformations.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number094014
    JournalJournal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics
    Volume11
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

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