Optical spatial solitons and their interactions: Universality and diversity

GI Stegeman, M Segev - Science, 1999 - science.org
Spatial solitons, beams that do not spread owing to diffraction when they propagate, have
been demonstrated to exist by virtue of a variety of nonlinear self-trapping mechanisms …

Advances in intense femtosecond laser filamentation in air

SL Chin, TJ Wang, C Marceau, J Wu, JS Liu… - Laser Physics, 2012 - Springer
This is a review of some recent development in femtosecond filamentation science with
emphasis on our collective work. Previously reviewed work in the field will not be discussed …

Coherence-controlled chaotic soliton bunch

ZX Zhang, M Luo, JH Liu, YT Yang, TJ Li, M Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Controlling the coherence of chaotic soliton bunch holds the promise to explore novel light-
matter interactions and manipulate dynamic events such as rogue waves. However, the …

Real-time observation of dissipative soliton formation in nonlinear polarization rotation mode-locked fibre lasers

J Peng, M Sorokina, S Sugavanam, N Tarasov… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Formation of coherent structures and patterns from unstable uniform state or noise is a
fundamental physical phenomenon that occurs in various areas of science ranging from …

Long-range interactions between optical solitons

C Rotschild, B Alfassi, O Cohen, M Segev - Nature Physics, 2006 - nature.com
Solitons are self-localized wave packets arising from a robust balance between dispersion
and nonlinearity. They are a universal phenomenon, exhibiting properties typically …

Photorefractive waveguides in oxide crystals: fabrication, properties, and applications.

D Kip - Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 1998 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract. In several oxide crystals the refractive index can be changed by inhomogeneous
illumination, and these photorefractive properties have allowed for a wide variety of …

Nonlocal spatial soliton interactions in nematic liquid crystals

M Peccianti, KA Brzdąkiewicz, G Assanto - Optics letters, 2002 - opg.optica.org
The interaction between spatial optical solitons in undoped nematic liquid crystals is
governed by reorientational nonlinearity with a significant nonlocality. We demonstrate …

Dissipative solitons

HG Purwins, HU Bödeker, S Amiranashvili - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The present review summarizes experimental and theoretical work dealing with self-
organized solitary localized structures (LSs) that are observed in spatially extended …

Soliton fission and fusion: Burgers equation and Sharma–Tasso–Olver equation

S Wang, X Tang, SY Lou - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2004 - Elsevier
Fission and fusion phenomena can happen for solitons (sometimes solitary waves may be
more accurate) which have been recently discovered both theoretically and experimentally …

Soliton collision induced explosions in a mode-locked fibre laser

J Peng, H Zeng - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Soliton explosion refers to a striking nonlinear dynamics in dissipative systems. In this state,
a dissipative soliton collapses but returns back to its original state afterwards. Yet, the origin …