Boundary effects on the dynamics of higher-order optical spatial solitons in nonlocal thermal media Conference Paper

abstract

• We study theoretically the propagation of higher-order two-dimensional spatial solitons in optical media with nonlocal thermal nonlinear response. We show that these localized states experience complex dynamics including transformations between solitons of different symmetries which depend strongly on the geometry of a nonlinear sample. Boundaries exert repulsive forces on a soliton and, depending on its initial position relative to the boundaries, we observe transverse motion of a beam as a whole across the sample, effectively facilitating transformations. 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

• Buccoliero, D., Desyatnikov, A. S., Krolikowski, W., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 24

complete list of authors

• Buccoliero, Daniel||Desyatnikov, Anton S||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• September 2009

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Optics  Journal

keywords

• Beam Transformations
• Boundary Effects
• Higher-order Optical Spatial Solitons
• Thermal Media

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/1464-4258/11/9/094014

start page

• 094014

end page

• 094014

volume

• 11

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1464-4258/11/9/094014