Stationary Optical Clusters in Nonlinear Media

Desyatnikov, Anton S; Sukhorukov, Andrey; Kivshar, Yuri

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Stationary Optical Clusters in Nonlinear Media

Date

2005

Authors

Desyatnikov, Anton S

Sukhorukov, Andrey

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

European Physical Society

Abstract

We predict the existence of azimuthally modulated self-trapped beams carrying an angular momentum. Such beams can be viewed as the generalization of soliton clusters, and they may possess positive, negative, or even zero rotation velocity.