Scattering of dipole-mode vector solitons: theory and experiment. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We study, both theoretically and experimentally, the scattering properties of optical dipole-mode vector solitons-radially asymmetric composite self-trapped optical beams. First, we analyze the soliton collisions in an isotropic two-component model with a saturable nonlinearity, and demonstrate that in many cases the scattering dynamics of the dipole-mode solitons allows us to classify them as "molecules of light"-extremely robust spatially localized objects which survive a wide range of interactions and display many properties of composite states with a rotational degree of freedom. Next, we study the composite solitons in an anisotropic nonlinear model that describes photorefractive nonlinearities, and also present a number of experimental verifications of our analysis.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

author list (cited authors)

  • Krolikowski, W., McCarthy, G., Kivshar, Y. S., Weilnau, C., Denz, C., Garca-Ripoll, J. J., & Prez-Garca, V. M.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Krolikowski, Wieslaw||McCarthy, Glen||Kivshar, Yuri S||Weilnau, Carsten||Denz, Cornelia||García-Ripoll, Juan J||Pérez-García, Víctor M

publication date

  • July 2003