Transverse instability of vector solitons and generation of dipole arrays
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2001-08-20
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Neshev, Dragomir
Pelinovsky, Dmitry
McCarthy, Glenn
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
Kivshar, Yuri
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We develop a theory of modulational instability of multiparameter solitary waves and analyze the transverse instability of composite (or vector) optical solitons in a saturable nonlinear medium. We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that a soliton stripe breaks up into an array of ( 2+1)-dimensional dipole-mode vector solitons, thus confirming the robust nature of those solitons as fundamental composite structures of incoherently coupled fields.
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Keywords: Anisotropy; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Mathematical models; Numerical analysis; Perturbation techniques; Vectors; Dipole array; Multiparameter solitary wave; Transverse instability; Vector soliton; Solitons
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Physical Review Letters 87.10 (2001): 103903/1-4
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