Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Optical wave turbulence: Towards a unified nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of statistical nonlinear optics

A Picozzi, J Garnier, T Hansson, P Suret, S Randoux… - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The nonlinear propagation of coherent optical fields has been extensively explored in the
framework of nonlinear optics, while the linear propagation of incoherent fields has been …

Chirped bright and kink solitons in nonlinear optical fibers with weak nonlocality and cubic-quantic-septic nonlinearity

Q Zhou, Y Zhong, H Triki, Y Sun, S Xu… - Chinese Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This work focuses on chirped solitons in a higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation,
including cubic-quintic-septic nonlinearity, weak nonlocal nonlinearity, self-frequency shift …

Experimental observation of oscillating and interacting matter wave dark solitons

A Weller, JP Ronzheimer, C Gross, J Esteve… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
We report on the generation, subsequent oscillation and interaction of a pair of matter-wave
dark solitons. These are created by releasing a Bose-Einstein condensate from a double …

Two-dimensional multipole solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

C Rotschild, M Segev, Z Xu, YV Kartashov, L Torner… - Optics letters, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We present the experimental observation of scalar multipole solitons in highly nonlocal
nonlinear media, including dipole, tripole, quadrupole, and necklace-type solitons …

Collisions of dark solitons in elongated Bose-Einstein condensates

S Stellmer, C Becker, P Soltan-Panahi, EM Richter… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
We present experimental data showing the head-on collision of dark solitons generated in
an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate. No discernable interaction can be recorded, in full …

Stability of two-dimensional spatial solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

S Skupin, O Bang, D Edmundson, W Krolikowski - Physical Review E …, 2006 - APS
We discuss the existence and stability of two-dimensional solitons in media with spatially
nonlocal nonlinear response. We show that such systems, which include thermal …

Observation of a gradient catastrophe generating solitons

C Conti, A Fratalocchi, M Peccianti, G Ruocco, S Trillo - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We investigate the propagation of a dark beam in a defocusing medium in the strong
nonlinear regime. We observe for the first time a shock fan filled with noninteracting one …

Nonlocal stabilization of nonlinear beams in a self-focusing atomic vapor

S Skupin, M Saffman, W Krolikowski - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We show that ballistic transport of optically excited atoms in an atomic vapor provides a
nonlocal nonlinearity which stabilizes the propagation of vortex beams and higher order …

Upper threshold for stability of multipole-mode solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

Z Xu, YV Kartashov, L Torner - Optics letters, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We address the stability of multipole-mode solitons in nonlocal Kerr-type nonlinear media.
Such solitons comprise several out-of-phase peaks packed together by the forces acting …