Lin YY, Lee RK. Symmetry-breaking instabilities of generalized elliptical solitons.
OPTICS LETTERS 2008;
33:1377-1379. [PMID:
18552965 DOI:
10.1364/ol.33.001377]
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Abstract
Elliptical solitons in 2D nonlinear Schödinger equations are studied numerically with a more-generalized formulation. New families of solitons, vortices, and soliton rings with elliptical symmetry are found and investigated. With a suitable symmetry-breaking parameter, we show that perturbed elliptical solitons tend to move transversely owing to the existences of dipole excitation modes, which are totally suppressed in circularly symmetric solitons. Furthermore, by numerical evolutions we demonstrate that elliptical vortices and soliton rings collapse into a pair of stripes and clusters, respectively, revealing the experimental observations in the literature.
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