Stabilization of dark and vortex parametric spatial solitons

Tristram J. Alexander; Alexander V. Buryak; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1364/OL.23.000670

Stabilization of dark and vortex parametric spatial solitons

Tristram J. Alexander^*, Alexander V. Buryak, Yuri S. Kivshar

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We demonstrate that a weak defocusing Kerr effect in an optical medium with predominantly quadratic [or χ⁽²⁾] nonlinear response can eliminate the parametric modulational instability of plane waves, leading to the existence of stable two-wave dark and vortex spatial solitons.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	670-672
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.23.000670
Publication status	Published - 1 May 1998

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