Abstract
We analyze the transverse instability of two-component spatial solitons in a saturable nonlinear medium, in relation to recent experimental observations of spatial vector solitons in photorefractive media. We present the stability analysis for all three realizations: dark-bright, bright-bright, and dark-dark soliton pairs, and demonstrate that both the nonlinearity saturation and incoherent mode interaction can lead to a strong suppression of the soliton transverse instabilities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | R1170-R1173 |
| Journal | Physical Review E |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1999 |