Soliton transverse instabilities in nonlocal nonlinear media

Lin, YuanYao; Lee, Ray-Kuang; Kivshar, Yuri

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Soliton transverse instabilities in nonlocal nonlinear media

Date

2008-04

Authors

Lin, YuanYao

Lee, Ray-Kuang

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Abstract

We analyze the transverse instabilities of spatial bright solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media, both analytically and numerically. We demonstrate that the nonlocal nonlinear response leads to a dramatic suppression of the transverse instability of the soliton stripes, and we derive the asymptotic expressions for the instability growth rate in both short- and long-wave approximations.