Cambournac C, Sylvestre T, Maillotte H, Vanderlinden B, Kockaert P, Emplit P, Haelterman M. Symmetry-breaking instability of multimode vector solitons.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2002;
89:083901. [PMID:
12190464 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.89.083901]
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Abstract
We show experimentally that the two-component multimode spatial optical vector soliton, i.e., a two-hump self-guided laser beam, exhibits in Kerr media a sharp space-inversion symmetry-breaking instability. The experiment is performed in a CS2 planar waveguide using the orthogonal circular polarization states of light as the two components of the vector soliton.
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