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Suppression of collapse for spiraling elliptic solitons

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2010

Authors

Desyatnikov, Anton S
Buccoliero, Daniel
Dennis, Mark R
Kivshar, Yuri

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American Physical Society

Abstract

We reveal that orbital angular momentum can suppress catastrophic self-focusing in nonlinear Kerr media supporting stable spiraling solitons with an elliptic cross section. We discuss the necessary requirements for observation of this effect with coherent optical and matter waves.

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Keywords: Elliptic cross-sections; Matter waves; Nonlinear kerr media; Orbital angular momentum; Self-focusing; Solitons

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/54321

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ANU Research Publications

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Physical Review Letters

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Journal article

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.053902

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2037-12-31

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