Multihump vector optical spatial solitons

Zhigang Chen; Michelle C. Acks; Elena A. Ostrovskaya; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1117/12.382066

14 April 2000 Multihump vector optical spatial solitons

Zhigang Chen, Michelle C. Acks, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, Yuri S. Kivshar

Proceedings Volume 3927, Optical Pulse and Beam Propagation II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382066
Event: Symposium on High-Power Lasers and Applications, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We present a brief overview of the physics of vector optical spatial solitons formed by an incoherent interaction of two optical beams in a medium with saturable (e.g. photorefractive) nonlinearity and describe the families of two-mode vector spatial solitons, which appear via bifurcations of one-component solitons, and their bound states. We report the results of the experimental observation of bound states formed by two vector spatial solitons due to a force balance between the soliton components, and also demonstrate a link between such bound states and earlier reported multihump multi-mode optical solitons.

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Zhigang Chen, Michelle C. Acks, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar "Multihump vector optical spatial solitons", Proc. SPIE 3927, Optical Pulse and Beam Propagation II, (14 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382066

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