Rotating Optical Soliton Clusters

2001/12/21 by Anton S. Desyatnikov, Yuri S. Kivshar · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Angular momentum #Classical mechanics #Cluster (spacecraft) #Dissipative soliton #Homogeneous #Mechanics #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Nonlinear system #Optical vortex #Phase (matter) #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Rotation (mathematics) #Soliton #Statistical physics #Vortex #nlin.PS

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.88.053901

4 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2001/12/21 · openalex publication_date 2002/01/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We introduce the concept of soliton clusters--multisoliton bound states in a homogeneous bulk optical medium--and reveal a key physical mechanism for their stabilization associated with a staircaselike phase distribution that induces a net angular momentum and leads to cluster rotation. The ringlike soliton clusters provide a nontrivial generalization of the concepts of two-soliton spiraling, optical vortex solitons, and necklace-type optical beams.

Citations

• Self-Trapping of “Necklace” Beams in Self-Focusing Kerr Media

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