Soliton interactions and transformations in colloidal media

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2009

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Matuszewski, Michal
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
Kivshar, Yuri

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American Physical Society

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We study nonlinear light propagation in colloidal suspensions of spherical dielectric nanoparticles. We analyze the existence and properties of one-dimensional self-trapped beams (spatial optical solitons) in such media and demonstrate the existence of a

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Keywords: Light propagation; Metals; Suspensions (fluids); Bi stables; Bistabilities; Coherent solitons; Colloidal suspensions; Continuous wave beams; Dielectric nanoparticles; Modulational instabilities; One-dimensional; Phase independents; Self-trapped beams; Sol

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Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

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