TY - JOUR
T1 - Laguerre and Hermite soliton clusters in nonlocal nonlinear media
AU - Buccoliero, Daniel
AU - Desyatnikov, Anton S.
AU - Krolikowski, Wieslaw
AU - Kivshar, Yuri S.
PY - 2007/2/1
Y1 - 2007/2/1
N2 - We introduce novel classes of higher-order spatial optical solitons in analogy with Laguerre-Gaussian and Hermite-Gaussian linear eigenmodes. We reveal that stable higher-order optical solitons can exist in nonlocal nonlinear media in the various forms of soliton necklaces and soliton matrices. Modulational instability can lead to nontrivial transformations between energetically close solitons with different symmetries through the intermediate states resembling generalized Hermite-Laguerre-Gaussian modes.
AB - We introduce novel classes of higher-order spatial optical solitons in analogy with Laguerre-Gaussian and Hermite-Gaussian linear eigenmodes. We reveal that stable higher-order optical solitons can exist in nonlocal nonlinear media in the various forms of soliton necklaces and soliton matrices. Modulational instability can lead to nontrivial transformations between energetically close solitons with different symmetries through the intermediate states resembling generalized Hermite-Laguerre-Gaussian modes.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.053901
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.053901
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 98
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 5
M1 - 053901
ER -