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 …

Solitons in Nonlinear Media with an Infinite Range of Nonlocality: First Observation<? format?> of Coherent Elliptic Solitons and of Vortex-Ring Solitons

C Rotschild, O Cohen, O Manela, M Segev, T Carmon - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
We present an experimental study on wave propagation in highly nonlocal optically
nonlinear media, for which far-away boundary conditions significantly affect the evolution of …

Modulational instability, solitons and beam propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media

W Krolikowski, O Bang, NI Nikolov… - Journal of optics B …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of optical beams in
nonlinear media with a spatially nonlocal nonlinear response. We discuss the impact of …

Self-confined light waves in nematic liquid crystals

G Assanto, NF Smyth - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of light beams propagating in the nonlinear, dispersive, birefringent and nonlocal
medium of nematic liquid crystals has attracted widespread interest in the last twenty years …

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 …

Theory of nonlocal soliton interaction in nematic liquid crystals

PD Rasmussen, O Bang, W Królikowski - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2005 - APS
We investigate interactions between spatial nonlocal bright solitons in nematic liquid crystals
using an analytical (“effective particle”) approach as well as direct numerical simulations …

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 …

Ince-Gaussian solitons in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media

D Deng, Q Guo - Optics letters, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We have introduced a novel class of higher-order spatial optical Ince-Gaussian solitons
(IGSs) that constitute the third complete family of exact and orthogonal soliton solutions of …

Stable rotating dipole solitons in nonlocal optical media

S Lopez-Aguayo, AS Desyatnikov, YS Kivshar… - Optics letters, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We reveal that nonlocality can provide a simple physical mechanism for stabilization of
multihump optical solitons and present what we believe to be the first example of stable …

Propagation of Laguerre–Gaussian beams in nonlocal nonlinear media

D Deng, Q Guo - Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, the exact analytical Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) solutions are derived in strongly
nonlocal nonlinear media in a cylindrical coordinate system. The comparisons of analytical …