Suppression of collapse for spiraling elliptic solitons

Anton S. Desyatnikov; Daniel Buccoliero; Mark R. Dennis; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.053902

Suppression of collapse for spiraling elliptic solitons

Anton S. Desyatnikov, Daniel Buccoliero, Mark R. Dennis, Yuri S. Kivshar

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We reveal that orbital angular momentum can suppress catastrophic self-focusing in nonlinear Kerr media supporting stable spiraling solitons with an elliptic cross section. We discuss the necessary requirements for observation of this effect with coherent optical and matter waves.

Original language	English
Article number	053902
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	104
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.053902
Publication status	Published - 5 Feb 2010

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Suppression of collapse for spiraling elliptic solitons

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