Stable rotating dipole solitons in nonlocal optical media

Lopez-Aguayo, Servando; Desyatnikov, Anton S.; Skupin, Stefan; Bang, Ole; Krolikowski, Wieslaw; Kivshar, Yuri

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Stable rotating dipole solitons in nonlocal optical media

Date

2005-12-20

Authors

Lopez-Aguayo, Servando

Desyatnikov, Anton S.

Skupin, Stefan

Bang, Ole

Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Abstract

We reveal that nonlocality can provide a simple physical mechanism for stabilization of multi-hump optical solitons, and present the first example of stable rotating dipole solitons and soliton spiraling, known to be unstable in all types of realistic nonlinear media with local response.