Robust three-dimensional spatial soliton clusters in strongly nonlocal media Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The propagation of three-dimensional soliton clusters in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media is investigated analytically and numerically. A broad class of exact self-similar solutions to the strongly nonlocal Schrdinger equation has been obtained. We find robust soliton cluster solutions, constructed with the help of Whittaker and Hermite-Gaussian functions. We confirm the stability of these solutions by direct numerical simulation. Our results demonstrate that robust higher-order spatial soliton clusters can exist in various forms, such as three-dimensional Gaussian solitons, radially symmetric solitons, multipole solitons and shell solitons. 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Zhong, W., Yi, L., Xie, R., Belic, M., & Chen, G.

citation count

  • 43

complete list of authors

  • Zhong, Wei-Ping||Yi, Lin||Xie, Rui-Hua||Belic, Milivoj||Chen, Goong

publication date

  • January 2008