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Li C, Kartashov YV. Stable Vortex Solitons Sustained by Localized Gain in a Cubic Medium. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:213802. [PMID: 38856259 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.213802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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We propose a simple dissipative system with purely cubic defocusing nonlinearity and nonuniform linear gain that can support stable localized dissipative vortex solitons with high topological charges without the utilization of competing nonlinearities and nonlinear gain or losses. Localization of such solitons is achieved due to an intriguing mechanism when defocusing nonlinearity stimulates energy flow from the ringlike region with linear gain to the periphery of the medium where energy is absorbed due to linear background losses. Vortex solitons bifurcate from linear gain-guided vortical modes with eigenvalues depending on topological charges that become purely real only at specific gain amplitudes. Increasing gain amplitude leads to transverse expansion of vortex solitons, but simultaneously it usually also leads to stability enhancement. Increasing background losses allows creation of stable vortex solitons with high topological charges that are usually prone to instabilities in conservative and dissipative systems. Propagation of the perturbed unstable vortex solitons in this system reveals unusual dynamical regimes, when instead of decay or breakup, the initial state transforms into stable vortex solitons with lower or sometimes even with higher topological charge. Our results suggest an efficient mechanism for the formation of nonlinear excited vortex-carrying states with suppressed destructive azimuthal modulational instabilities in a simple setting relevant to a wide class of systems, including polaritonic systems, structured microcavities, and lasers.
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- Chunyan Li
- School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
- Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 108840 Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 108840 Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
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Sun Y, Parra-Rivas P, Milián C, Kartashov YV, Ferraro M, Mangini F, Jauberteau R, Talenti FR, Wabnitz S. Robust Three-Dimensional High-Order Solitons and Breathers in Driven Dissipative Systems: A Kerr Cavity Realization. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:137201. [PMID: 37832004 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.137201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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We present a general approach to excite robust dissipative three-dimensional and high-order solitons and breathers in passively driven nonlinear cavities. Our findings are illustrated in the paradigmatic example provided by an optical Kerr cavity with diffraction and anomalous dispersion, with the addition of an attractive three-dimensional parabolic potential. The potential breaks the translational symmetry along all directions, and impacts the system in a qualitatively unexpected manner: three-dimensional solitons, or light bullets, are the only existing and stable states for a given set of parameters. This property is extremely rare, if not unknown, in passive nonlinear systems. As a result, the excitation of the cavity with any input field leads to the deterministic formation of a target soliton or breather, with a spatiotemporal profile that unambiguously corresponds to the given cavity and pumping conditions. In addition, the tuning of the potential width along the temporal direction results in the existence of a plethora of stable asymmetric solitons. Our results may provide a solid route toward the observation of dissipative light bullets and three-dimensional breathers.
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- Yifan Sun
- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Institut Universitari de Matemàtica Pura i Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 València, Spain
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- Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow 108840, Russia
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
- CNR-INO, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli, Italy
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Gopalakrishnan SS, Panajotov K, Taki M, Tlidi M. Dissipative Light Bullets in Kerr Cavities: Multistability, Clustering, and Rogue Waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:153902. [PMID: 33929226 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.153902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We report the existence of stable dissipative light bullets in Kerr cavities. These three-dimensional (3D) localized structures consist of either an isolated light bullet (LB), bound together, or could occur in clusters forming well-defined 3D patterns. They can be seen as stationary states in the reference frame moving with the group velocity of light within the cavity. The number of LBs and their distribution in 3D settings are determined by the initial conditions, while their maximum peak power remains constant for a fixed value of the system parameters. Their bifurcation diagram allows us to explain this phenomenon as a manifestation of homoclinic snaking for dissipative light bullets. However, when the strength of the injected beam is increased, LBs lose their stability and the cavity field exhibits giant, short-living 3D pulses. The statistical characterization of pulse amplitude reveals a long tail probability distribution, indicating the occurrence of extreme events, often called rogue waves.
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- S S Gopalakrishnan
- Faculté des Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B), CP. 231, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
- Université Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523-PhLAM-Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Department of Applied Physics and Photonics (IR-TONA), Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
- Institute of Solid State Physics, 72 Tzarigradsko Chaussee Boulevard, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Université Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523-PhLAM-Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Faculté des Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B), CP. 231, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Bright-Dark and Multi Solitons Solutions of (3 + 1)-Dimensional Cubic-Quintic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Dynamical Equation with Applications and Stability. ENTROPY 2020; 22:e22020202. [PMID: 33285977 PMCID: PMC7516630 DOI: 10.3390/e22020202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In this paper, bright-dark, multi solitons, and other solutions of a (3 + 1)-dimensional cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg–Landau (CQCGL) dynamical equation are constructed via employing three proposed mathematical techniques. The propagation of ultrashort optical solitons in optical fiber is modeled by this equation. The complex Ginzburg–Landau equation with broken phase symmetry has strict positive space–time entropy for an open set of parameter values. The exact wave results in the forms of dark-bright solitons, breather-type solitons, multi solitons interaction, kink and anti-kink waves, solitary waves, periodic and trigonometric function solutions are achieved. These exact solutions have key applications in engineering and applied physics. The wave solutions that are constructed from existing techniques and novel structures of solitons can be obtained by giving the special values to parameters involved in these methods. The stability of this model is examined by employing the modulation instability analysis which confirms that the model is stable. The movements of some results are depicted graphically, which are constructive to researchers for understanding the complex phenomena of this model.
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Chen Y, Yan Z, Liu W. Impact of near-𝒫𝒯 symmetry on exciting solitons and interactions based on a complex Ginzburg-Landau model. OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 26:33022-33034. [PMID: 30645460 DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.033022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We theoretically report the influence of a class of near-parity-time-(𝒫𝒯-) symmetric potentials on solitons in the complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation. Although the linear spectral problem with the potentials does not admit entirely-real spectra due to the existence of spectral filtering parameter α2 or nonlinear gain-loss coefficient β2, we do find stable exact solitons in the second quadrant of the (α2, β2) space including on the corresponding axes. Other fascinating properties associated with the solitons are also examined, such as the interactions and energy flux. Moreover, we study the excitations of nonlinear modes by considering adiabatic changes of parameters in a generalized CGL model. These results are useful for the related experimental designs and applications.
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Mayteevarunyoo T, Malomed BA, Skryabin DV. One- and two-dimensional modes in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with a trapping potential. OPTICS EXPRESS 2018; 26:8849-8865. [PMID: 29715847 DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.008849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 03/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We propose a new mechanism for the stabilization of confined modes in lasers and semiconductor microcavities holding exciton-polariton condensates, with spatially uniform linear gain, cubic loss, and cubic self-focusing or defocusing nonlinearity. We demonstrated that the commonly known background instability driven by the linear gain can be suppressed by a combination of a harmonic-oscillator trapping potential and effective diffusion. Systematic numerical analysis of one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) versions of the model reveals a variety of stable modes, including stationary ones, breathers, and quasi-regular patterns filling the trapping area in the 1D case. In 2D, the analysis produces stationary modes, breathers, axisymmetric and rotating crescent-shaped vortices, stably rotating complexes built of up to 8 individual vortices, and, in addition, patterns featuring vortex turbulence. Existence boundaries for both 1D and 2D stationary modes are found in an exact analytical form, and an analytical approximation is developed for the full stationary states.
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Li H, Lai S, Qui Y, Zhu X, Xie J, Mihalache D, He Y. Stable dissipative optical vortex clusters by inhomogeneous effective diffusion. OPTICS EXPRESS 2017; 25:27948-27967. [PMID: 29092262 DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.027948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We numerically show the generation of robust vortex clusters embedded in a two-dimensional beam propagating in a dissipative medium described by the generic cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with an inhomogeneous effective diffusion term, which is asymmetrical in the two transverse directions and periodically modulated in the longitudinal direction. We show the generation of stable optical vortex clusters for different values of the winding number (topological charge) of the input optical beam. We have found that the number of individual vortex solitons that form the robust vortex cluster is equal to the winding number of the input beam. We have obtained the relationships between the amplitudes and oscillation periods of the inhomogeneous effective diffusion and the cubic gain and diffusion (viscosity) parameters, which depict the regions of existence and stability of vortex clusters. The obtained results offer a method to form robust vortex clusters embedded in two-dimensional optical beams, and we envisage potential applications in the area of structured light.
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Skarka V, Aleksić NB, Krolikowski W, Christodoulides DN, Rakotoarimalala S, Aleksić BN, Belić M. Self-structuring of stable dissipative breathing vortex solitons in a colloidal nanosuspension. OPTICS EXPRESS 2017; 25:10090-10102. [PMID: 28468384 DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.010090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The self-structuring of laser light in an artificial optical medium composed of a colloidal suspension of nanoparticles is demonstrated using variational and numerical methods extended to dissipative systems. In such engineered materials, competing nonlinear susceptibilities are enhanced by the light induced migration of nanoparticles. The compensation of diffraction by competing focusing and defocusing nonlinearities, together with a balance between loss and gain, allow for self-organization of light and the formation of stable dissipative breathing vortex solitons. Due to their robustness, the breathers may be used for selective dynamic photonic tweezing of nanoparticles in colloidal nanosuspensions.
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Yang G, Wang Y, Qin Z, Malomed BA, Mihalache D, Li L. Breatherlike solitons extracted from the Peregrine rogue wave. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:062909. [PMID: 25615166 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.062909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Based on the Peregrine solution (PS) of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation, the evolution of rational fraction pulses surrounded by zero background is investigated. These pulses display the behavior of a breatherlike solitons. We study the generation and evolution of such solitons extracted, by means of the spectral-filtering method, from the PS in the model of the optical fiber with realistic values of coefficients accounting for the anomalous dispersion, Kerr nonlinearity, and higher-order effects. The results demonstrate that the breathing solitons stably propagate in the fibers. Their robustness against small random perturbations applied to the initial background is demonstrated too.
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- Guangye Yang
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China and Department of Physics, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030001, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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- School of Mathematics, Key Laboratory of Mathematics for Nonlinear Science and Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O. Box MG-6, RO-077125 Magurele, Romania and Academy of Romanian Scientists, 54 Splaiul Independentei, RO-050094 Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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Ding E, Tang AYS, Chow KW, Malomed BA. Pinned modes in two-dimensional lossy lattices with local gain and nonlinearity. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2014; 372:rsta.2014.0018. [PMID: 25246677 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We introduce a system with one or two amplified nonlinear sites ('hot spots', HSs) embedded into a two-dimensional linear lossy lattice. The system describes an array of evanescently coupled optical or plasmonic waveguides, with gain applied to selected HS cores. The subject of the analysis is discrete solitons pinned to the HSs. The shape of the localized modes is found in quasi-analytical and numerical forms, using a truncated lattice for the analytical consideration. Stability eigenvalues are computed numerically, and the results are supplemented by direct numerical simulations. In the case of self-focusing nonlinearity, the modes pinned to a single HS are stable and unstable when the nonlinearity includes the cubic loss and gain, respectively. If the nonlinearity is self-defocusing, the unsaturated cubic gain acting at the HS supports stable modes in a small parametric area, whereas weak cubic loss gives rise to a bistability of the discrete solitons. Symmetric and antisymmetric modes pinned to a symmetric set of two HSs are also considered.
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- Edwin Ding
- Department of Mathematics and Physics, Azusa Pacific University, Box 7000, Azusa, CA 91702-7000, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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He Y, Malomed BA, Mihalache D. Localized modes in dissipative lattice media: an overview. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2014; 372:rsta.2014.0017. [PMID: 25246672 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We give an overview of recent theoretical studies of the dynamics of one- and two-dimensional spatial dissipative solitons in models based on the complex Ginzburg-Landau equations with the cubic-quintic combination of loss and gain terms, which include imaginary, real or complex spatially periodic potentials. The imaginary potential represents periodic modulation of the local loss and gain. It is shown that the effective gradient force, induced by the inhomogeneous loss distribution, gives rise to three generic propagation scenarios for one-dimensional dissipative solitons: transverse drift, persistent swing motion, and damped oscillations. When the lattice-average loss/gain value is zero, and the real potential has spatial parity opposite to that of the imaginary component, the respective complex potential is a realization of the parity-time symmetry. Under the action of lattice potentials of the latter type, one-dimensional solitons feature motion regimes in the form of the transverse drift and persistent swing. In the two-dimensional geometry, three types of axisymmetric radial lattices are considered, namely those based solely on the refractive-index modulation, or solely on the linear-loss modulation, or on a combination of both. The rotary motion of solitons in such axisymmetric potentials can be effectively controlled by varying the strength of the initial tangential kick.
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- Yingji He
- School of Electronics and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, 510665 Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physical Electronics, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Academy of Romanian Scientists, 54 Splaiul Independentei, 050094 Bucharest, Romania Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, POB MG-6, 077125 Magurele-Bucharest, Romania
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Rodrigues AS, Kevrekidis PG, Carretero-González R, Cuevas-Maraver J, Frantzeskakis DJ, Palmero F. From nodeless clouds and vortices to gray ring solitons and symmetry-broken states in two-dimensional polariton condensates. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2014; 26:155801. [PMID: 24674920 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/15/155801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We consider the existence, stability and dynamics of the nodeless state and fundamental nonlinear excitations, such as vortices, for a quasi-two-dimensional polariton condensate in the presence of pumping and nonlinear damping. We find a series of interesting features that can be directly contrasted to the case of the typically energy-conserving ultracold alkali-atom Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). For sizeable parameter ranges, in line with earlier findings, the nodeless state becomes unstable towards the formation of stable nonlinear single or multi-vortex excitations. The potential instability of the single vortex is also examined and is found to possess similar characteristics to those of the nodeless cloud. We also report that, contrary to what is known, e.g., for the atomic BEC case, stable stationary gray ring solitons (that can be thought of as radial forms of Nozaki-Bekki holes) can be found for polariton condensates in suitable parametric regimes. In other regimes, however, these may also suffer symmetry-breaking instabilities. The dynamical, pattern-forming implications of the above instabilities are explored through direct numerical simulations and, in turn, give rise to waveforms with triangular or quadrupolar symmetry.
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- A S Rodrigues
- Departamento de Física/CFP, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, R Campo Alegre, 687-4169-007 Porto, Portugal
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Maor O, Dror N, Malomed BA. Holding spatial solitons in a pumped cavity with the help of nonlinear potentials. OPTICS LETTERS 2013; 38:5454-5457. [PMID: 24343015 DOI: 10.1364/ol.38.005454] [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 introduce a one-dimensional model of a cavity with the Kerr nonlinearity and saturated gain designed so as to hold solitons in the state of shuttle motion. The solitons are always unstable in the cavity bounded by the usual potential barriers, due to accumulation of noise generated by the linear gain. Complete stabilization of the shuttling soliton is achieved if the linear barrier potentials are replaced by nonlinear ones, which trap the soliton, being transparent to the radiation. The removal of the noise from the cavity is additionally facilitated by an external ramp potential. The stable dynamical regimes are found numerically, and their basic properties are explained analytically.
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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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Kartashov YV, Torner L. Rotation-managed dissipative solitons. OPTICS LETTERS 2013; 38:2317-2320. [PMID: 23811914 DOI: 10.1364/ol.38.002317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We show that when spatially localized gain landscape performs accelerated motion in the transverse plane, i.e., when it rotates or oscillates around the light propagation axis, the effective gain experienced by the light beam considerably reduces with an increase of the amplitude of oscillations or frequency of rotation of the localized gain. In the presence of uniform background losses and defocusing nonlinearity, such gain landscapes may support dynamically oscillating gain-managed solitons, but if the amplitude of oscillations or the frequency of rotation of the localized gain exceeds a threshold, stable attractors disappear and any input beam decays.
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- Yaroslav V Kartashov
- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860, Spain.
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Liu B, He XD, Li SJ. Continuous emission of fundamental solitons from vortices in dissipative media by a radial-azimuthal potential. OPTICS EXPRESS 2013; 21:5561-5566. [PMID: 23482127 DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.005561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We report novel dynamical regimes of dissipative vortices supported by a radial-azimuthal potential (RAP) in the 2D complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity. First, the stable solutions of vortices with intrinsic vorticity S = 1 and 2 are obtained in the CGL equation without potential. The RAP is a model of an active optical medium with respective expanding anti-waveguiding structures with m (integer) annularly periodic modulation. If the potential is strong enough, m jets fundamental of solitons are continuously emitted from the vortices. The influence of m, diffusivity term (viscosity) β, and cubic-gain coefficient ε on the dynamic region is studied. For a weak potential, the shape of vortices are stretched into the polygon, such as square for m = 4. But for a stronger potential, the vortices will be broke into m fundamental solitons.
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- Bin Liu
- Key Laboratory of Nondestructive Test, Ministry of Education, Nanchang Hangkong University, China.
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Besse V, Leblond H, Mihalache D, Malomed BA. Pattern formation by kicked solitons in the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau medium with a transverse grating. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 87:012916. [PMID: 23410413 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.012916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2012] [Revised: 09/13/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We consider the kick- (tilt-) induced mobility of two-dimensional (2D) fundamental dissipative solitons in models of bulk lasing media based on the 2D complex Ginzburg-Landau equation including a spatially periodic potential (transverse grating). The depinning threshold, which depends on the orientation of the kick, is identified by means of systematic simulations and estimated by means of an analytical approximation. Various pattern-formation scenarios are found above the threshold. Most typically, the soliton, hopping between potential cells, leaves arrayed patterns of different sizes in its wake. In the single-pass-amplifier setup, this effect may be used as a mechanism for the selective pattern formation controlled by the tilt of the input beam. Freely moving solitons feature two distinct values of the established velocity. Elastic and inelastic collisions between free solitons and pinned arrayed patterns are studied too.
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- Valentin Besse
- LUNAM Université, Laboratoire de Photonique d'Angers, Université d'Angers, EA 4464, 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49000 Angers, France
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Lobanov VE, Kartashov YV, Vysloukh VA, Torner L. Soliton generation by counteracting gain-guiding and self-bending. OPTICS LETTERS 2012; 37:4540-4542. [PMID: 23114356 DOI: 10.1364/ol.37.004540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We introduce a concept for stable spatial soliton formation, mediated by the competition between self-bending induced by a strongly asymmetric nonlocal nonlinearity and spatially localized gain superimposed on a wide pedestal with linear losses. When acting separately both effects seriously prevent stable localization of light, but under suitable conditions they counteract each other, forming robust soliton states that are attractors for a wide range of material and input light conditions.
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- Valery E Lobanov
- Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
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Malomed BA, Ding E, Chow KW, Lai SK. Pinned modes in lossy lattices with local gain and nonlinearity. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:036608. [PMID: 23031046 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.036608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Revised: 07/24/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We introduce a discrete linear lossy system with an embedded "hot spot" (HS), i.e., a site carrying linear gain and complex cubic nonlinearity. The system can be used to model an array of optical or plasmonic waveguides, where selective excitation of particular cores is possible. Localized modes pinned to the HS are constructed in an implicit analytical form, and their stability is investigated numerically. Stability regions for the modes are obtained in the parameter space of the linear gain and cubic gain or loss. An essential result is that the interaction of the unsaturated cubic gain and self-defocusing nonlinearity can produce stable modes, although they may be destabilized by finite-amplitude perturbations. On the other hand, the interplay of the cubic loss and self-defocusing gives rise to a bistability.
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- Boris A Malomed
- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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He Y, Mihalache D, Malomed BA, Qiu Y, Chen Z, Li Y. Generation of polygonal soliton clusters and fundamental solitons in dissipative systems by necklace-ring beams with radial-azimuthal phase modulation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:066206. [PMID: 23005195 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.066206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We demonstrate that, in a two-dimensional dissipative medium described by the cubic-quintic (CQ) complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation with the viscous (spectral-filtering) term, necklace rings carrying a mixed radial-azimuthal phase modulation can evolve into polygonal or quasipolygonal stable soliton clusters, and into stable fundamental solitons. The outcome of the evolution is controlled by the depth and azimuthal anharmonicity of the phase-modulation profile, or by the radius and number of "beads" in the initial necklace ring. Threshold characteristics of the evolution of the patterns are identified and explained. Parameter regions for the formation of the stable polygonal and quasipolygonal soliton clusters, and of stable fundamental solitons, are identified. The model with the CQ terms replaced by the full saturable nonlinearity produces essentially the same set of basic dynamical scenarios; hence this set is a universal one for the CGL models.
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- Yingji He
- School of Electronics and Information, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, 510665 Guangzhou, China.
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Jisha CP, Lin Y, Lee TD, Lee RK. Crescent waves in optical cavities. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:183902. [PMID: 22107631 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.183902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We theoretically and experimentally generate stationary crescent surface solitons pinged to the boundary of a microstructured vertical cavity surface emission laser by triggering the intrinsic cavity mode as a background potential. Instead of a direct transition from linear to nonlinear cavity modes, we demonstrate the existence of symmetry-breaking crescent waves without any analogs in the linear limit. Our results provide an alternative and general method to control lasing characteristics as well as to study optical surface waves.
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- Chandroth P Jisha
- Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
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Borovkova OV, Kartashov YV, Lobanov VE, Vysloukh VA, Torner L. Vortex twins and anti-twins supported by multiring gain landscapes. OPTICS LETTERS 2011; 36:3783-3785. [PMID: 21964096 DOI: 10.1364/ol.36.003783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We address the properties of multivortex soliton complexes supported by multiring gain landscapes in focusing Kerr nonlinear media with strong two-photon absorption. Stable complexes incorporating two, three, or four vortices featuring opposite or identical topological charges are shown to exist. In the simplest geometries with two amplifying rings vortex twins with equal topological charges exhibit asymmetric intensity distributions, while vortex anti-twins may be symmetric or asymmetric, depending on the gain level and separation between rings.
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- O V Borovkova
- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
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Paulau PV, Gomila D, Colet P, Malomed BA, Firth WJ. From one- to two-dimensional solitons in the Ginzburg-Landau model of lasers with frequency-selective feedback. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 84:036213. [PMID: 22060481 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.036213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We use the cubic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation linearly coupled to a dissipative linear equation as a model for lasers with an external frequency-selective feedback. This system may also serve as a general pattern-formation model in media driven by an intrinsic gain and selective feedback. While, strictly speaking, the approximation of the laser nonlinearity by a cubic term is only valid for small field intensities, it qualitatively reproduces results for dissipative solitons obtained in models with a more complex nonlinearity in the whole parameter region where the solitons exist. The analysis is focused on two-dimensional stripe-shaped and vortex solitons. An analytical expression for the stripe solitons is obtained from the known one-dimensional soliton solution, and its relation with vortex solitons is highlighted. The radius of the vortices increases linearly with their topological charge m, therefore the stripe-shaped soliton may be interpreted as the vortex with m=∞, and, conversely, vortex solitons can be realized as unstable stripes bent into stable rings. The results for the vortices are applicable for a broad class of physical systems.
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- P V Paulau
- IFISC, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat Illes Balears, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Borovkova OV, Lobanov VE, Kartashov YV, Torner L. Rotating vortex solitons supported by localized gain. OPTICS LETTERS 2011; 36:1936-1938. [PMID: 21593941 DOI: 10.1364/ol.36.001936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We show that ringlike localized gain landscapes imprinted in focusing cubic (Kerr) nonlinear media with strong two-photon absorption support new types of stable higher-order vortex solitons containing multiple phase singularities nested inside a single core. The phase singularities are found to rotate around the center of the gain landscape, with the rotation period being determined by the strength of the gain and the nonlinear absorption.
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- Olga V Borovkova
- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
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Zhao D, Yu MY. Generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation as a model for turbulence, collapse, and inverse cascade. Phys Rev E 2011; 83:036405. [PMID: 21517602 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.036405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A two-dimensional generalized cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with complex coefficients for the group dispersion and nonlinear terms is used to investigate the evolution of a finite-amplitude localized initial perturbation. It is found that modulation of the latter can lead to sideband formation, wave condensation, collapse, turbulence, and inverse energy cascade, although not all together and not in that order.
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- Dian Zhao
- Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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