TY - JOUR
T1 - Transverse instability of vector solitons and generation of dipole arrays
AU - Neshev, Dragomir
AU - Krolikowski, Wieslaw
AU - Pelinovsky, Dmitry E.
AU - McCarthy, Glen
AU - Kivshar, Yuri S.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We develop a theory of modulational instability of multiparameter solitary waves and analyze the transverse instability of composite (or vector) optical solitons in a saturable nonlinear medium. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that a soliton stripe breaks up into an array of (2+1)-dimensional dipole-mode vector solitons, thus confirming the robust nature of those solitons as fundamental composite structures of incoherently coupled fields.
AB - We develop a theory of modulational instability of multiparameter solitary waves and analyze the transverse instability of composite (or vector) optical solitons in a saturable nonlinear medium. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that a soliton stripe breaks up into an array of (2+1)-dimensional dipole-mode vector solitons, thus confirming the robust nature of those solitons as fundamental composite structures of incoherently coupled fields.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.103903
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.103903
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 87
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 10
ER -