Three-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

2006/01/26 by D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, F. Lederer +4 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.PS

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.73.025601

14 pages, 6 figures, accepted to PRE, Rapid Communications

arxiv created 2006/01/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We demonstrate the existence of stable three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons (STSs) in media with a nonlocal cubic nonlinearity. Fundamental (nonspinning) STSs forming one-parameter families are stable if their propagation constant exceeds a certain critical value, that is inversely proportional to the range of nonlocality of nonlinear response. All spinning three-dimensional STSs are found to be unstable.

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