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Zhang X, Zhao Q. A Kundu-nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Rogue waves, breathers, and mixed interaction solutions. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2024; 34:053135. [PMID: 38787312 DOI: 10.1063/5.0186265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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A Kundu-nonlinear Schrödinger equation that can be utilized to simulate the pulse propagation in optical fibers is researched in this paper. First, the Lax integrability of the above equation is proved and its modulational instability (i.e., the main mechanism for producing the rogue wave solutions and the breather solutions) is calculated. Subsequently, using the generalized perturbation (n,N-n)-fold Darboux transformation, the rogue waves, breathers, and mixed interaction solutions are acquired, as well as the impact of various parameters on the solutions is examined. In particular, when we assume that the coefficient of the equation is θ=mx+dt, some new wave structures are found based on parameter variations, such as the rotational separation of first-order rogue waves, scale-like structures generated by second-order breathers, etc., which offer novel ideas for producing different signals via optical fibers. Ultimately, the classification numbers of mixed solutions of rogue waves and breathers are provided, which can better observe how the two types of the local waves are combined, in accordance with the distributions of the increasing numbers of algebraic equations.
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- Xuejie Zhang
- College of Mathematics and Systems Science, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- College of Mathematics and Systems Science, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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Yang Y, Shen M. Modulation instability in nonlinear media with sine-oscillatory nonlocal response function and pure quartic diffraction. Sci Rep 2024; 14:8961. [PMID: 38637682 PMCID: PMC11026490 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59722-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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Modulation instability of one-dimensional plane wave is demonstrated in nonlinear Kerr media with sine-oscillatory nonlocal response function and pure quartic diffraction. The growth rate of modulation instability, which depends on the degree of nonlocality, coefficient of quartic diffraction, type of the nonlinearity and the power of plane wave, is analytically obtained with linear-stability analysis. Different from other nonlocal response functions, the maximum of the growth rate in media with sine-oscillatory nonlocal response function occurs always at a particular wave number. Theoretical results of modulation instability are confirmed numerically with split-step Fourier transform. Modulation instability can be controlled flexibly by adjusting the degree of nonlocality and quartic diffraction.
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- Yuwen Yang
- Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China
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- Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China.
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Liu L, Sun WR, Malomed BA. Formation of Rogue Waves and Modulational Instability with Zero-Wavenumber Gain in Multicomponent Systems with Coherent Coupling. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:093801. [PMID: 37721812 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.093801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
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It is known that rogue waves (RWs) are generated by the modulational instability (MI) of the baseband type. Starting with the Bers-Kaup-Reiman system for three-wave resonant interactions, we identify a specific RW-building mechanism based on MI which includes zero wavenumber in the gain band. An essential finding is that this mechanism works solely under a linear relation between the MI gain and a vanishingly small wavenumber of the modulational perturbation. The same mechanism leads to the creation of RWs by MI in other multicomponent systems-in particular, in the massive Thirring model.
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- Lei Liu
- College of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Center for Light-Matter Interaction, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica, Chile
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Zhao W, Ge L, Shen M. Interactions of Airy beams in nonlinear media with fourth-order diffraction. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:14715-14725. [PMID: 37157330 DOI: 10.1364/oe.488852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We investigate to the best of our knowledge the first time the interactions of in-phase and out-of-phase Airy beams in Kerr, saturable and nonlocal nonlinear media with fourth-order diffraction using split-step Fourier transform method. Directly numerical simulations show that normal and anomalous fourth-order diffractions have profound effects on the interactions of the Airy beams in Kerr and saturable nonlinear media. We demonstrate the dynamics of the interactions in detail. In nonlocal media with fourth-order diffraction, nonlocality induces a long-range attractive force between Airy beams, leading to the formation of stable bound states of both in-phase and out-of-phase breathing Airy soliton pairs which are always repulsive in local media. Our results have potential applications in all-optical devices for communication and optical interconnects, etc.
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Shi Z, Huang G. Matter-wave dromions in a disk-shaped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate with the Lee-Huang-Yang correction. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:024214. [PMID: 36932626 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.024214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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We investigate, both analytically and numerically, the nonlinear dynamics of (2+1)-dimensional [(2+1)D] matter waves excited in a disk-shaped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) when quantum fluctuations described by the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction are taken into consideration. By using a method of multiple scales, we derive Davey-Stewartson I equations that govern the nonlinear evolution of matter-wave envelopes. We demonstrate that the system supports (2+1)D matter-wave dromions, which are superpositions of a short-wavelength excitation and a long-wavelength mean flow. We found that the stability of the matter-wave dromions can be enhanced by the LHY correction. We also found that such dromions display interesting behaviors of collision, reflection, and transmission when they interact with each other and are scattered by obstacles. The results reported here are useful not only for improving the understanding on the physical property of the quantum fluctuations in BECs, but also for possible experimental findings of new nonlinear localized excitations in systems with long-ranged interactions.
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- Zeyun Shi
- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, Shiyan 442000, China
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- NYU-ECRU Joint Institute of Physics, New York University at Shanghai, Shanghai 200062, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
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Tabi CB, Tagwo H, Kofané TC. Modulational instability in nonlinear saturable media with competing nonlocal nonlinearity. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:054201. [PMID: 36559471 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.054201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The modulational instability (MI) phenomenon is addressed in a nonlocal medium under controllable saturation. The linear stability analysis of a plane-wave solution is used to derive an expression for the growth rate of MI that is exploited to parametrically discuss the possibility for the plane wave to disintegrate into nonlinear localized light patterns. The influence of the nonlocal parameter, the saturation coefficient, and the saturation index are mainly explored in the context of a Gaussian nonlocal response. It is pointed out that the instability spectrum, which tends to be quenched by the high nonlocality parameter, gets amplified under the right choices of the saturation parameters, especially the saturation index. Via direct numerical simulations, confirmations of analytical predictions are given, where competing nonlocal and saturable nonlinearities enable the emergence of trains of patterns as manifestations of MI. The comprehensive parametric analysis carried out throughout the numerical experiment reveals the robustness of the obtained rogue waves of A- and B-type Akhmediev breathers, as the nonlinear signature of MI, providing the saturation index as a suitable tool to manipulate nonlinear waves in nonlocal media.
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- Conrad Bertrand Tabi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Private Mail Bag 16 Palapye, Botswana
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- Laboratory of Mechanics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, P.O. Box 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Private Mail Bag 16 Palapye, Botswana.,Laboratory of Mechanics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I, P.O. Box 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon.,Centre d'Excellence Africain en Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon
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Liang G, Shu F, Cheng W, Jiao L. Nonlinearity-mediated collimation of optical beams. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:10770-10778. [PMID: 35473036 DOI: 10.1364/oe.455935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We investigated the evolutions of optical beams in an optical system composed of free spaces and nonlocal nonlinear media layers in a cascaded manner. From an application point of view, two kinds of evolution processes for Gaussian beams, nonlinearity-mediated collimation and switching from breathers to solitons, were discussed in details. By adjusting the input optical power, the collimating, the compressing and the expanding of optical beams are convenient to be controlled.
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Amplification and Generation of Frequency-Modulated Soliton Pulses in Nonuniform Active Fiber Configurations. PHOTONICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/photonics9030160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We report on the theoretical and numerical analysis of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation describing the dynamical evolution of frequency-modulated (FM) optical signals propagating through the fiber configuration comprising active fibers with the anomalous dispersion nonuniformly distributed over the fiber length. In our consideration, a single active fiber section including segments with initially increasing and then decreasing dispersion is used for amplification and compression of an external FM pulse resulting in an increase of ~6 orders of magnitude in the pulse peak power and a 100-fold narrowing of the pulse duration down to a few picoseconds. Moreover, we demonstrate that, with a ~1 mW weakly modulated continuous wave input signal, the fiber configuration comprising two active fiber sections with different dispersion profiles is able to generate a strongly periodic pulse train, resulting in a pulse repetition rate >100 GHz, a pulse duration ~0.5 ps, and peak power up to ~1 kW. An evolution of optical signals governed by modulation instability in both fiber configurations is explored.
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Unique Features of Nonlocally Nonlinear Systems with Oscillatory Responses. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12052386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We review the recent investigation of a new form of nonlocally nonlinear system with oscillatory responses. The system has various new features, such as the nonlocality-controllable transition of self-focusing and self-defocusing nonlinearities, a unique modulational instability and new forms of solitons. We also discuss the propagation of the optical beam in a nematic liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy and demonstrate theoretically that propagation can be modelled by the system.
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Koutsokostas GN, Theocharis G, Horikis TP, Kevrekidis PG, Frantzeskakis DJ. Transverse instability and dynamics of nonlocal bright solitons. Phys Rev E 2022; 104:064205. [PMID: 35030933 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.064205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study the transverse instability and dynamics of bright soliton stripes in two-dimensional nonlocal nonlinear media. Using a multiscale perturbation method, we derive analytically the first-order correction to the soliton shape, which features an exponential growth in time-a signature of the transverse instability. The soliton's characteristic timescale associated with its exponential growth is found to depend on the square root of the nonlocality parameter. This, in turn, highlights the nonlocality-induced suppression of the transverse instability. Our analytical predictions are corroborated by direct numerical simulations, with the analytical results being in good agreement with the numerical ones.
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- G N Koutsokostas
- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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- LAUM, CNRS, Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans, France
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-4515, USA
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- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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Garnier J, Baudin K, Fusaro A, Picozzi A. Incoherent localized structures and hidden coherent solitons from the gravitational instability of the Schrödinger-Poisson equation. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:054205. [PMID: 34942767 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.054205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The long-term behavior of a modulationally unstable conservative nonintegrable system is known to be characterized by the soliton turbulence self-organization process. We consider this problem in the presence of a long-range interaction in the framework of the Schrödinger-Poisson (or Newton-Schrödinger) equation accounting for the gravitational interaction. By increasing the amount of nonlinearity, the system self-organizes into a large-scale incoherent localized structure that contains "hidden" coherent soliton states: The solitons can hardly be identified in the usual spatial or spectral domains, but their existence can be unveiled in the phase-space representation (spectrogram). We develop a theoretical approach that provides the coupled description of the coherent soliton component [governed by the Schrödinger-Poisson equation (SPE)] and of the incoherent structure [governed by a wave turbulence Vlasov-Poisson equation (WT-VPE)]. We demonstrate theoretically and numerically that the incoherent structure introduces an effective trapping potential that stabilizes the hidden coherent soliton and we show that the incoherent structure belongs to a family of stationary solutions of the WT-VPE. The analysis reveals that the incoherent structure evolves in the strongly nonlinear regime and that it is characterized by a compactly supported spectral shape. By relating the analytical properties of the hidden soliton to those of the stationary incoherent structure, we clarify the quantum-to-classical (i.e., SPE-to-VPE) correspondence in the limit ℏ/m→0: The hidden soliton appears as the latest residual quantum correction preceding the classical limit described by the VPE. This study is of potential interest for self-gravitating Boson models of fuzzy dark matter. Although we focus our paper on the Schrödinger-Poisson equation, we show that the regime of hidden solitons stabilized by an incoherent structure is general for long-range wave systems featured by an algebraic decay of the interacting potential. This work should stimulate nonlinear optics experiments in highly nonlocal nonlinear (thermal) media that mimic the long-range nature of gravitational interactions.
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- Josselin Garnier
- CMAP, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France.,CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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Aleksanyan A, Louis H, Henninot JF, Louvergneaux E. Experimental focusing shocklike dynamics in a nonlocal optical stochastic Kerr medium. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:022701. [PMID: 33736110 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.022701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We experimentally study the propagating of an optical intensity jump discontinuity in a nonlocal stochastic Kerr focusing nematic liquid crystal cell. We show both theoretically and experimentally that nonlocality opens a route towards beam steering in our system. Indeed, the discontinuity trajectory follows a curve that bends with the injected power. Despite the stochastic nature of the medium and the constant presence of transverse instabilities, the development of a focusing shocklike dynamics is shown to survive. The distance Z_{s} for the focusing shock to occur follows a power law with the beam power P according to Z_{s}∝P^{χ}, with χ=-4/3, as for shock dynamics in self-defocusing media.
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- A Aleksanyan
- Universite Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Universite Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Universite Artois, CNRS, UMR 8181 - UCCS - Unite de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide, F-62307 Lens Cedex, France
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- Universite Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physique des Lasers Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France
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Li H, Peng X, Shi Z. Vector solitons in nonlocal optical media with pseudo spin-orbit-coupling. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:022205. [PMID: 33736013 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.022205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We numerically investigate the existence and stability of nonlocal vector solitons with pseudo spin-orbit-coupling (SOC). The pseudo SOC is realized by a framework based on the spatial-domain copropagation of two beams with mutually orthogonal polarizations and opposite transverse components of the carrier wave vectors in nonlocal optical media. The numerical results show that there are two kinds of solutions for vector solitons, one is central symmetric, and the other is noncentral symmetric. The solitons may exist below a certain threshold value of the effective SOC strength in the system.
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- Huagang Li
- School of Photoelectric Engineering, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665, China
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- School of Photoelectric Engineering, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665, China
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- School of Electro-mechanical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Koutsokostas GN, Horikis TP, Frantzeskakis DJ. Soliton pairs in two-dimensional nonlocal media. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:042208. [PMID: 32422842 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.042208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study the interaction of optical beams of different wavelengths, described by a two-component, two-dimensional (2D) nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) model. Using a multiscale expansion method the NLS model is asymptotically reduced to the completely integrable 2D Mel'nikov system, the soliton solutions of which are used to construct approximate dark-bright and antidark-bright soliton solutions of the original NLS model; the latter being unique to the nonlocal NLS system with no relevant counterparts in the local case. Direct numerical simulations show that, for sufficiently small amplitudes, both these types of soliton stripes do exist and propagate undistorted, in excellent agreement with the analytical predictions. Larger amplitude of these soliton stripes, when perturbed along the transverse direction, disintegrate either to filled vortex structures (the dark-bright solitons) or to radiation (the antidark-bright solitons).
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- Georgios N Koutsokostas
- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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Dong L, Huang C, Qi W. Nonlocal solitons in fractional dimensions. OPTICS LETTERS 2019; 44:4917-4920. [PMID: 31613228 DOI: 10.1364/ol.44.004917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We report the existence and stability properties of multipole-mode solitons supported by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation featuring a combination of the fractional-order diffraction effect and nonlocal focusing Kerr-type nonlinearity. We reveal that multipole-mode solitons, including an arbitrary number of peaks, can propagate stably in fractional systems provided that the propagation constant exceeds a certain value, which is in sharp contrast to conventional nonlocal systems under a normal diffraction, where bound states composed of five peaks or more are completely unstable. Thus, we demonstrate, to the best of our knowledge, the first example of nonlocal solitons in fractional configurations.
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Plestid R, O'Dell DHJ. Balancing long-range interactions and quantum pressure: Solitons in the Hamiltonian mean-field model. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:022216. [PMID: 31574683 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.022216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The Hamiltonian mean-field (HMF) model describes particles on a ring interacting via a cosine interaction, or equivalently, rotors coupled by infinite-range XY interactions. Conceived as a generic statistical mechanical model for long-range interactions such as gravity (of which the cosine is the first Fourier component), it has recently been used to account for self-organization in experiments on cold atoms with long-range optically mediated interactions. The significance of the HMF model lies in its ability to capture the universal effects of long-range interactions and yet be exactly solvable in the canonical ensemble. In this work we consider the quantum version of the HMF model in one dimension and provide a classification of all possible stationary solutions of its generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GGPE), which is both nonlinear and nonlocal. The exact solutions are Mathieu functions that obey a nonlinear relation between the wave function and the depth of the mean-field potential, and we identify them as bright solitons. Using a Galilean transformation these solutions can be boosted to finite velocity and are increasingly localized as the mean-field potential becomes deeper. In contrast to the usual local GPE, the HMF case features a tower of solitons, each with a different number of nodes. Our results suggest that long-range interactions support solitary waves in a novel manner relative to the short-range case.
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- Ryan Plestid
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2Y5
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1
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The intricate patterns emerging from the interactions between soliton stripes of a two-dimensional defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) model with a non-local nonlinearity are considered. We show that, for sufficiently strong non-locality, the model is asymptotically reduced to a Kadomtsev–Petviashvilli-II (KPII) equation, which is a common model arising in the description of shallow water waves, as such patterns of water may indeed exist in light (this non-local NLS finds applications in nonlinear optics, modelling beam propagation in media featuring thermal nonlinearities, in plasmas, and in nematic liquid crystals). This way, approximate antidark soliton solutions of the NLS model are constructed from the stable KPII line solitons. By means of direct numerical simulations, we demonstrate that non-resonant and resonant two- and three-antidark NLS stripe soliton interactions give rise to wave configurations that are found in the context of the KPII equation. Thus, our study indicates that patterns which are usually observed in water can also be found in optics.
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- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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Reconstruction of noisy images via stochastic resonance in nematic liquid crystals. Sci Rep 2019; 9:3976. [PMID: 30850690 PMCID: PMC6408515 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40676-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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We employ nematic liquid crystals as the nonlinear medium to recover noisy images via stochastic resonance, in which nonlinear coupling allows signals to grow at the expense of noise. The process is theoretically analyzed and the cross-correlation is numerically calculated. It is found that the quality of output images is affected by the input noise intensity, the applied voltage and the correlation length of noise light. Noise-hidden images can be effectively recovered by optimizing these parameters. The results suggest that nematic liquid crystals can be used for reconstruction of noisy images via stochastic resonance based on modulation instability with molecule reorientation nonlinearity.
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Incoherent Shock and Collapse Singularities in Non-Instantaneous Nonlinear Media. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/app8122559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We study the dynamics of a partially incoherent optical pulse that propagates in a slowly responding nonlinear Kerr medium. We show that irrespective of the sign of the dispersion (either normal or anomalous), the incoherent pulse as a whole exhibits a global collective behavior characterized by a dramatic narrowing and amplification in the strongly non-linear regime. The theoretical analysis based on the Vlasov formalism and the method of the characteristics applied to a reduced hydrodynamic model reveal that such a strong amplitude-incoherent pulse originates in the existence of a concurrent shock-collapse singularity (CSCS): The envelope of the intensity of the random wave exhibits a collapse singularity, while the momentum exhibits a shock singularity. The dynamic behavior of the system after the shock-collapse singularity is characterized through the analysis of the phase-space dynamics.
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Kumar M, Nithyanandan K, Porsezian K. Influence of spatial delay on the modulational instability in a composite system with a controllable nonlinearity. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:062208. [PMID: 30011578 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.062208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A theoretical investigation of the modulational instability (MI) in a composite system with a nonlocal response function is presented. A composite system of silver nanoparticles in acetone is chosen, whose nonlinearity can be delicately varied by controlling the volume fraction of the constituents, thus enabling the possibility of nonlinearity management. A pump-probe counterpropagation configuration has been assumed, and the interplay between the competing nonlinearities and the nonlocalities in the MI dynamics is systematically explored. A different class of nonlocalities have been considered, and the study reveals that the nonlocality critically depends on the kind of nonlocal function. However, the general behavior is that the strength of nonlocality suppresses the MI gain, while for a rectangular function it assists the emergence of new spectral windows. We also show that the cross coupling effects are significant in enhancing MI, especially in the defocusing nonlinearity. We also emphasize the impact of the relative strength of the nonlinearities in the MI dynamics at different settings of competing nonlinearities. Thus, we emphasize the importance of the different class of nonlocal response in the MI dynamics and explore the interplay between the higher order nonlinear effects and nonlocalities in the counterpropagating configurations.
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- Monisha Kumar
- Department of Physics, School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry 605014, India
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 9 avenue A. Savary, BP 47870, Dijon Cedex F-21078, France.,CNRS/Universite Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LIPHY), F-38400 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Physics, School of Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry 605014, India
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García Ramírez EV, Sabinas Hernández SA, Ramírez Martínez D, Díaz G, Reyes Esqueda JA. Third order nonlinear optics in Ag nanocubes: local and nonlocal optical responses as a function of excitation wavelength and particle size. OPTICS EXPRESS 2017; 25:31064-31076. [PMID: 29245785 DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.031064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Colloidal silver nanocubes in solution were analyzed by the Z-scan technique in the resonant and non-resonant regimes. Three different systems with particle sizes of 56, 99 and 215 nm, and concentrations of 0.378, 0.831 and 0.715 mg/mL, respectively, were obtained by the polyol method. Nonlinear excitation of the samples was performed with laser pulses of 26 ps, at a repetition rate of 10 Hz, and using three different wavelenghts (355, 532 and 1064 nm), exciting only the electronic part of the optical nonlinearity, and avoiding induced thermal loading of the samples. Whenever observable, samples showed saturable absorption for all wavelengths, which was dependent, in general, on concentration and incident intensity. For samples featuring sizes of 55 and 99 nm, saturable absorption could be observed for wavelengths close to their dipolar surface plasmon resonances; while, for samples with sizes of 99 and 215 nm, saturable absorption and positive nonlinear optical refraction (only for size of 215 nm) could be observed at 1064 nm. Besides, for some samples, nonlinear optical response followed the incident intensity profile at wavelengths close to resonance. On the contrary, for wavelengths out of resonance, the nonlinear optical behavior showed to be nonlocal, ie, its profile was narrower than the incident one.
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Chowdury A, Krolikowski W. Breather-to-soliton transformation rules in the hierarchy of nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:062226. [PMID: 28709292 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.062226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study the exact first-order soliton and breather solutions of the integrable nonlinear Schrödinger equations hierarchy up to fifth order. We reveal the underlying physical mechanism which transforms a breather into a soliton. Furthermore, we show how the dynamics of the Akhmediev breathers which exist on a constant background as a result of modulation instability, is connected with solitons on a zero background. We also demonstrate that, while a first-order rogue wave can be directly transformed into a soliton, higher-order rogue wave solutions become rational two-soliton solutions with complex collisional structure on a background. Our results will have practical implications in supercontinuum generation, turbulence, and similar other complex nonlinear scenarios.
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- Amdad Chowdury
- Science Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Science Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar.,Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Dynamics and collapse of two-dimensional Airy beams are investigated numerically in nonlocal nonlinear media with split step Fourier transform method. In particular, the stability and self-healing properties of the Airy beams depend crucially on the location and topological charge of the vortex when the beams carry angular momentum. The propagation of abruptly autofocusing Airy beams is also demonstrated in local and nonlocal media. In strongly self-focusing regime, with the help of nonlocality, stationary propagation of two-dimensional Airy beams can be obtained, which always collapse in local nonlinear media.
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Horikis TP, Frantzeskakis DJ. Light Meets Water in Nonlocal Media: Surface Tension Analogue in Optics. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:243903. [PMID: 28665668 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.243903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Shallow water wave phenomena find their analogue in optics through a nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) model in 2+1 dimensions. We identify an analogue of surface tension in optics, namely, a single parameter depending on the degree of nonlocality, which changes the sign of dispersion, much like surface tension does in the shallow water wave problem. Using multiscale expansions, we reduce the NLS model to a Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation, which is of the KPII (KPI) type, for strong (weak) nonlocality. We demonstrate the emergence of robust optical antidark solitons forming Y-, X-, and H-shaped wave patterns, which are approximated by colliding KPII line solitons, similar to those observed in shallow waters.
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- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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The generation of rogue waves is investigated in a class of nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equations. In this system, modulation instability is suppressed as the effect of nonlocality increases. Despite this fact, there is a parameter regime where the number and amplitude of the rogue events increase as compared to the standard NLS equation, which is a limit of the system when nonlocality vanishes. Furthermore, the nature of these waves is investigated; while no analytical solutions are known to model these events, it is shown, numerically, that these rogue events differ significantly from the rational soliton (Peregrine) solution of the limiting NLS equation. The universal structure of the associated rogue waves is discussed and a local description is presented. These results can help in the experimental realization of rogue waves in these media.
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- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, 526 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0526, USA
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Fan Z, Shi Y, Liu Y, Pang W, Li Y, Malomed BA. Cross-symmetric dipolar-matter-wave solitons in double-well chains. Phys Rev E 2017; 95:032226. [PMID: 28415205 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.95.032226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We consider a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in an array of two-well systems with an arbitrary orientation of the dipoles relative to the system's axis. The system can be built as a chain of local traps sliced into two parallel lattices by a repelling laser sheet. It is modeled by a pair of coupled discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equations, with dipole-dipole self-interactions and cross interactions. When the dipoles are not polarized perpendicular or parallel to the lattice, the cross interaction is asymmetric, replacing the familiar symmetric two-component discrete solitons by two new species of cross-symmetric ones, viz., on-site- and off-site-centered solitons, which are strongly affected by the orientation of the dipoles and separation between the parallel lattices. A very narrow region of intermediate asymmetric discrete solitons is found at the boundary between the on- and off-site families. Two different types of solitons in the PT-symmetric version of the system are constructed too, and stability areas are identified for them.
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- Zhiwei Fan
- Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Experiment Teaching, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.,School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.,Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.,Laboratory of Nonlinear-Optical Informatics, ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia
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Braidotti MC, Gentilini S, Conti C. Gamow vectors explain the shock profile. OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 24:21963-21970. [PMID: 27661931 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.021963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The description of shock waves beyond the shock point is a challenge in nonlinear physics and optics. Finding solutions to the global dynamics of dispersive shock waves is not always possible due to the lack of integrability. Here we propose a new method based on the eigenstates (Gamow vectors) of a reversed harmonic oscillator in a rigged Hilbert space. These vectors allow analytical formulation for the development of undular bores of shock waves in a nonlinear nonlocal medium. Experiments by a photothermal induced nonlinearity confirm theoretical predictions: the undulation period as a function of power and the characteristic quantized decays of Gamow vectors. Our results demonstrate that Gamow vectors are a novel and effective paradigm for describing extreme nonlinear phenomena.
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Zhong WP, Belić MR, Malomed BA, Zhang Y, Huang T. Spatiotemporal accessible solitons in fractional dimensions. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:012216. [PMID: 27575132 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.012216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We report solutions for solitons of the "accessible" type in globally nonlocal nonlinear media of fractional dimension (FD), viz., for self-trapped modes in the space of effective dimension 2<D≤3 with harmonic-oscillator potential whose strength is proportional to the total power of the wave field. The solutions are categorized by a combination of radial, orbital, and azimuthal quantum numbers (n,l,m). They feature coaxial sets of vortical and necklace-shaped rings of different orders, and can be exactly written in terms of special functions that include Gegenbauer polynomials, associated Laguerre polynomials, and associated Legendre functions. The validity of these solutions is verified by direct simulations. The model can be realized in various physical settings emulated by FD spaces; in particular, it applies to excitons trapped in quantum wells.
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- Wei-Ping Zhong
- Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shunde Polytechnic, Guangdong Province, Shunde 528300, China.,Texas A&M University at Qatar, P.O. Box 23874 Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.,Laboratory of Nonlinear-Optical Informatics, ITMO University, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia
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- Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
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- Texas A&M University at Qatar, P.O. Box 23874 Doha, Qatar
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Shen M, Li W, Lee RK. Control on the anomalous interactions of Airy beams in nematic liquid crystals. OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 24:8501-8511. [PMID: 27137288 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.008501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We reveal a controllable manipulation of anomalous interactions between Airy beams in nonlocal nematic liquid crystals numerically. With the help of an in-phase fundamental Gaussian beam, attraction between in-phase Airy beams can be suppressed or become a repulsive one to each other; whereas the attraction can be strengthened when the Gaussian beam is out-of-phase. In contrast to the repulsive interaction in local media, stationary bound states of breathing Airy soliton pairs are found in nematic liquid crystals.
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Horikis TP, Frantzeskakis DJ. Ring dark and antidark solitons in nonlocal media. OPTICS LETTERS 2016; 41:583-586. [PMID: 26907429 DOI: 10.1364/ol.41.000583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Ring dark and antidark solitons in nonlocal media are found. These structures have, respectively, the form of annular dips or humps on top of a stable CW background, and exist in a weak or strong nonlocality regime, defined by the sign of a characteristic parameter. It is demonstrated analytically that these solitons satisfy an effective cylindrical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (aka Johnson's) equation and, as such, can be written explicitly in closed form. Numerical simulations show that they propagate undistorted and undergo quasi-elastic collisions, attesting to their stability properties.
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Zhang YC, Zhou ZW, Malomed BA, Pu H. Stable Solitons in Three Dimensional Free Space without the Ground State: Self-Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates with Spin-Orbit Coupling. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:253902. [PMID: 26722921 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.253902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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By means of variational methods and systematic numerical analysis, we demonstrate the existence of metastable solitons in three dimensional (3D) free space, in the context of binary atomic condensates combining contact self-attraction and spin-orbit coupling, which can be engineered by available experimental techniques. Depending on the relative strength of the intra- and intercomponent attraction, the stable solitons feature a semivortex or mixed-mode structure. In spite of the fact that the local cubic self-attraction gives rise to the supercritical collapse in 3D, and hence the setting produces no true ground state, the solitons are stable against small perturbations, motion, and collisions.
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- Yong-Chang Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
- Center for Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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Liang G, Guo Q, Cheng W, Yin N, Wu P, Cao H. Spiraling elliptic beam in nonlocal nonlinear media. OPTICS EXPRESS 2015; 23:24612-24625. [PMID: 26406663 DOI: 10.1364/oe.23.024612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Analytically discussed is the dynamical properties of the spiraling elliptic beams in nonlocal nonlinear media. This class of spiraling elliptic beams carry the orbital angular momentum (OAM), and can rotate on the cross section perpendicular to the propagation direction during the propagations. The optical intensity, the beam width, and specially the angular velocity are both analytically and numerically discussed in details. We shown that both the deviations from the critical power and the deviations from the critical OAM can make the spiraling elliptic beams breathe. The decrease (increase) of the OAM or the increase (decrease) of the power can both make the spiraling elliptic breathers contract (diffract), however, there still exist differences between them. The rotating speed can be changed by the input optical power or the input OAM, which may have potential applications in the controlling of the optical beams.
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From coherent shocklets to giant collective incoherent shock waves in nonlocal turbulent flows. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8131. [PMID: 26348292 PMCID: PMC4569716 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Accepted: 07/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Understanding turbulent flows arising from random dispersive waves that interact strongly through nonlinearities is a challenging issue in physics. Here we report the observation of a characteristic transition: strengthening the nonlocal character of the nonlinear response drives the system from a fully turbulent regime, featuring a sea of coherent small-scale dispersive shock waves (shocklets) towards the unexpected emergence of a giant collective incoherent shock wave. The front of such global incoherent shock carries most of the stochastic fluctuations and is responsible for a peculiar folding of the local spectrum. Nonlinear optics experiments performed in a solution of graphene nano-flakes clearly highlight this remarkable transition. Our observations shed new light on the role of long-range interactions in strongly nonlinear wave systems operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium, which reveals analogies with, for example, gravitational systems, and establishes a new scenario that can be common to many turbulent flows in photonic quantum fluids, hydrodynamics and Bose–Einstein condensates. Understanding turbulent flows arising from random dispersive waves that interact through nonlinearities is a challenging issue in physics. Here, the authors model and observe experimentally in a nonlinear optics set-up the transition between a sea of small-scale shocklets and a giant collective shock wave.
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Solitons shedding from Airy beams and bound states of breathing Airy solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9814. [PMID: 25900878 PMCID: PMC4405770 DOI: 10.1038/srep09814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We investigate the spatially optical solitons shedding from Airy beams and anomalous interactions of Airy beams in nonlocal nonlinear media by means of direct numerical simulations. Numerical results show that nonlocality has profound effects on the propagation dynamics of the solitons shedding from the Airy beam. It is also shown that the strong nonlocality can support periodic intensity distribution of Airy beams with opposite bending directions. Nonlocality also provides a long-range attractive force between Airy beams, leading to the formation of stable bound states of both in-phase and out-of-phase breathing Airy solitons which always repel in local media.
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Chen W, Shen M, Kong Q, Shi J, Wang Q, Krolikowski W. Interactions of nonlocal dark solitons under competing cubic-quintic nonlinearities. OPTICS LETTERS 2014; 39:1764-1767. [PMID: 24686599 DOI: 10.1364/ol.39.001764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We investigate analytically and numerically the interactions of dark solitons under competing nonlocal cubic and local quintic nonlinearities. It is shown that the self-defocusing quintic nonlinearity will strengthen the attractive interaction and decrease the relative distance between solitons, whereas the self-focusing quintic nonlinearity will enhance the repulsive interaction and increase soliton separation. We demonstrate these results by approximate variational approach and direct numerical simulation.
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Wang J, Li Y, Guo Q, Hu W. Stabilization of nonlocal solitons by boundary conditions. OPTICS LETTERS 2014; 39:405-408. [PMID: 24562158 DOI: 10.1364/ol.39.000405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We discovered that boundary conditions can stabilize nonlocal solitons with an oscillatory periodic response function. These solitons are the equivalent of quadratic solitons consisting of fundamental waves and oscillatory second harmonics, which are unstable unless subject to boundary confinement.
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He Y, Malomed BA. Accessible solitons in complex Ginzburg-Landau media. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:042912. [PMID: 24229254 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.042912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We construct dissipative spatial solitons in one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equations with spatially uniform linear gain; fully nonlocal complex nonlinearity, which is proportional to the integral power of the field times the harmonic-oscillator (HO) potential, similar to the model of "accessible solitons;" and a diffusion term. This CGL equation is a truly nonlinear one, unlike its actually linear counterpart for the accessible solitons. It supports dissipative spatial solitons, which are found in a semiexplicit analytical form, and their stability is studied semianalytically, too, by means of the Routh-Hurwitz criterion. The stability requires the presence of both the nonlocal nonlinear loss and diffusion. The results are verified by direct simulations of the nonlocal CGL equation. Unstable solitons spontaneously spread out into fuzzy modes, which remain loosely localized in the effective complex HO potential. In a narrow zone close to the instability boundary, both 1D and 2D solitons may split into robust fragmented structures, which correspond to excited modes of the 1D and 2D HOs in the complex potentials. The 1D solitons, if shifted off the center or kicked, feature persistent swinging motion.
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- Yingji He
- School of Electronics and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, 510665 Guangzhou, China and Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials, School of Physics and Telecommunication Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Santos CE, Alencar MA, Migowski P, Dupont J, Hickmann JM. Anionic and cationic influence on the nonlocal nonlinear optical response of ionic liquids. Chem Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2012.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Jia J, Lin J. Solitons in nonlocal nonlinear Kerr media with exponential response function. OPTICS EXPRESS 2012; 20:7469-7479. [PMID: 22453426 DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.007469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In this paper, we find some exact analytical solutions including bright soliton solution, dipole-mode soliton solution, double soliton solution and periodic solution when a slit laser beam propagates in Kerr-type nonlinear, nonlocal media with exponential response function. Furthermore, we address the energy flow is a monotonically growing function of d₂ and the Hamiltonian decreases while the energy flow increases. And we also obtain an Airy-like soliton by numerical method.
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- Jian Jia
- Department of Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
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Picozzi A, Garnier J. Incoherent soliton turbulence in nonlocal nonlinear media. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:233901. [PMID: 22182089 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.233901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The long-term behavior of a modulationally unstable nonintegrable system is known to be characterized by the soliton turbulence self-organization process: It is thermodynamically advantageous for the system to generate a large-scale coherent soliton in order to reach the ("most disordered") equilibrium state. We show that this universal process of self-organization breaks down in the presence of a highly nonlocal nonlinear response. A wave turbulence approach based on a Vlasov-like kinetic equation reveals the existence of an incoherent soliton turbulence process: It is advantageous for the system to self-organize into a large-scale, spatially localized, incoherent soliton structure.
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- Antonio Picozzi
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, 21078 Dijon, France
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Tsang CH, Malomed BA, Chow KW. Multistable dissipative structures pinned to dual hot spots. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 84:066609. [PMID: 22304213 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.066609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2011] [Revised: 10/07/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We analyze the formation of one-dimensional localized patterns in a nonlinear dissipative medium including a set of two narrow "hot spots" (HSs), which carry the linear gain, local potential, cubic self-interaction, and cubic loss, while the linear loss acts in the host medium. This system can be realized as a spatial-domain one in optics and also in Bose-Einstein condensates of quasiparticles in solid-state settings. Recently, exact solutions were found for localized modes pinned to the single HS represented by the δ function. The present paper reports analytical and numerical solutions for coexisting two- and multipeak modes, which may be symmetric or antisymmetric with respect to the underlying HS pair. Stability of the modes is explored through simulations of their perturbed evolution. The sign of the cubic nonlinearity plays a crucial role: in the case of the self-focusing, only the fundamental symmetric and antisymmetric modes, with two local peaks tacked to the HSs, and no additional peaks between them, may be stable. In this case, all the higher-order multipeak modes, being unstable, evolve into the fundamental ones. Stability regions for the fundamental modes are reported. A more interesting situation is found in the case of the self-defocusing cubic nonlinearity, with the HS pair giving rise to a multistability, with up to eight coexisting stable multipeak patterns, symmetric and antisymmetric ones. The system without the self-interaction, the nonlinearity being represented only by the local cubic loss, is investigated too. This case is similar to those with the self-focusing or defocusing nonlinearity, if the linear potential of the HS is, respectively, attractive or repulsive. An additional feature of the former setting is the coexistence of the stable fundamental modes with robust breathers.
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- Cheng Hou Tsang
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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Deng D, Guo Q. Propagation of elliptic-Gaussian beams in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 84:046604. [PMID: 22181293 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.046604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2011] [Revised: 08/31/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The propagation of the elliptic-Gaussian beams is studied in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media. The elliptic-Gaussian beams and elliptic-Gaussian vortex beams are obtained analytically and numerically. The patterns of the elegant Ince-Gaussian and the generalized Ince-Gaussian beams are varied periodically when the input power is equal to the critical power. The stability is verified by perturbing the initial beam by noise. By simulating the propagation of the elliptic-Gaussian beams in liquid crystal, we find that when the mode order is not big enough, there exists the quasi-elliptic-Gaussian soliton states.
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- Dongmei Deng
- Key Laboratory of Photonic Information Technology of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, People's Republic of China
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Zhang Y, Skupin S, Maucher F, Pour AG, Lu K, Królikowski W. Azimuthons in weakly nonlinear waveguides of different symmetries. OPTICS EXPRESS 2010; 18:27846-27857. [PMID: 21197058 DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.027846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We show that weakly guiding nonlinear waveguides support stable propagation of rotating spatial solitons (azimuthons). We investigate the role of waveguide symmetry on the soliton rotation. We find that azimuthons in circular waveguides always rotate rigidly during propagation and the analytically predicted rotation frequency is in excellent agreement with numerical simulations. On the other hand, azimuthons in square waveguides may experience spatial deformation during propagation. Moreover, we show that there is a critical value for the modulation depth of azimuthons above which solitons just wobble back and forth, and below which they rotate continuously. We explain these dynamics using the concept of energy difference between different orientations of the azimuthon.
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- Yiqi Zhang
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
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Ramirez EVG, Carrasco MLA, Otero MMM, Cerda SC, Castillo MDI. Far field intensity distributions due to spatial self phase modulation of a Gaussian beam by a thin nonlocal nonlinear media. OPTICS EXPRESS 2010; 18:22067-22079. [PMID: 20941108 DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.022067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this work we present a simple model that can be used to calculate the far field intensity distributions when a Gaussian beam cross a thin sample of nonlinear media but the response can be nonlocal.
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- E V Garcia Ramirez
- Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Av San Claudio y 18 Sur Col San Manuel, CP 72570, Puebla, Puebla, México.
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Kong Q, Wang Q, Bang O, Krolikowski W. Analytical theory of dark nonlocal solitons. OPTICS LETTERS 2010; 35:2152-2154. [PMID: 20596177 DOI: 10.1364/ol.35.002152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We investigate properties of dark solitons in nonlocal materials with an arbitrary degree of nonlocality. We employ the variational technique and describe dark solitons, for the first time to our knowledge, in the whole range of degree of nonlocality.
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- Qian Kong
- Laser Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
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Ye F, Kartashov YV, Hu B, Torner L. Power-dependent soliton steering in thermal nonlinear media. OPTICS LETTERS 2009; 34:2658-2660. [PMID: 19724523 DOI: 10.1364/ol.34.002658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We address the existence and properties of optical solitons excited in thermal nonlinear media with a transverse refractive index gradient. The interplay between the nonlocality of the thermal nonlinearity and the linear refractive index enables generating controllable switching from surface soliton propagating near the sample edges to bulk solitons. Beam steering associated with the different soliton output locations can be achieved by varying the input light intensity.
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- Fangwei Ye
- Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, and The Beijing-Hong Kong Singapore Joint Centre for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, China.
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Strinic AI, Petrovic M, Timotijevic DV, Aleksic NB, Belic MR. Breathing solitons in nematic liquid crystals. OPTICS EXPRESS 2009; 17:11698-11709. [PMID: 19582084 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.011698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Dynamical and steady-state behavior of beams propagating in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) is analyzed. A well-known model for the beam propagation and the director reorientation angle in a NLC cell is treated numerically in space and time. The formation of steady-state soliton breathers in a threshold region of beam intensities is displayed. Below the region the beams diffract, above the region spatiotemporal instabilities develop, as the input intensity and the material parameters are varied. Curiously, the only kind of solitons we could demonstrate in our numerical studies was the breathers. Despite repeated efforts, we could not find the solitons with a steady profile propagating in the NLC model at hand.
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- A I Strinic
- Institute of Physics, PO Box 57, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia.
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Buccoliero D, Desyatnikov AS. Quasi-periodic transformations of nonlocal spatial solitons. OPTICS EXPRESS 2009; 17:9608-9613. [PMID: 19506609 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.009608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We study quasi-periodic transformations between nonlocal spatial solitons of different symmetries triggered by modulational instability and resembling a self-induced mode converter. Transformation dynamics of solitons with zero angular momentum, e.g. the quadrupole-type soliton, reveal the equidistant spectrum of spatial field oscillations typical for the breather-type solutions. In contrast, the transformations of nonlocal solitons carrying orbital angular momentum, such as 2x3 soliton matrix, are accompanied by their spiralling and corresponding spectra of field oscillations show mixing of three characteristic spatial frequencies.
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- Daniel Buccoliero
- Nonlinear Physics Center, Laser Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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Kartashov YV, Vysloukh VA, Torner L. Engineering soliton nonlinearities: from local to strongly nonlocal. OPTICS LETTERS 2009; 34:1543-1545. [PMID: 19448815 DOI: 10.1364/ol.34.001543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We put forward what we believe to be a novel strategy to achieve synthetic nonlinearities where local and nonlocal contributions compete on a similar footing, thus yielding intermediate tunable responses ranging from local to strongly nonlocal. The setting addressed is a semiconductor material with both Kerr and thermal nonlinearities illuminated by a pulse train with suitable pulse width and repetition rate.
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- Yaroslav V Kartashov
- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
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Kartashov YV, Vysloukh VA, Torner L. Multipole surface solitons in thermal media. OPTICS LETTERS 2009; 34:283-285. [PMID: 19183632 DOI: 10.1364/ol.34.000283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We address the existence and properties of multipole solitons localized at a thermally insulating interface between uniform or layered thermal media and a linear dielectric. We find that in the case of uniform media, only surface multipoles with less than three poles can be stable. In contrast, we reveal that periodic alternation of the thermo-optic coefficient in layered thermal media makes possible the stabilization of higher-order multipoles.
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- Yaroslav V Kartashov
- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Mediterranean Technology Park, Barcelona, Spain.
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