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Koutsokostas GN, Theocharis G, Horikis TP, Kevrekidis PG, Frantzeskakis DJ. Transverse instability and dynamics of nonlocal bright solitons. Phys Rev E 2022; 104:064205. [PMID: 35030933 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.064205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We study the transverse instability and dynamics of bright soliton stripes in two-dimensional nonlocal nonlinear media. Using a multiscale perturbation method, we derive analytically the first-order correction to the soliton shape, which features an exponential growth in time-a signature of the transverse instability. The soliton's characteristic timescale associated with its exponential growth is found to depend on the square root of the nonlocality parameter. This, in turn, highlights the nonlocality-induced suppression of the transverse instability. Our analytical predictions are corroborated by direct numerical simulations, with the analytical results being in good agreement with the numerical ones.
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- G N Koutsokostas
- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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- LAUM, CNRS, Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans, France
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-4515, USA
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- Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, Athens 15784, Greece
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Horikis TP, Frantzeskakis DJ. Ring dark and antidark solitons in nonlocal media. OPTICS LETTERS 2016; 41:583-586. [PMID: 26907429 DOI: 10.1364/ol.41.000583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Ring dark and antidark solitons in nonlocal media are found. These structures have, respectively, the form of annular dips or humps on top of a stable CW background, and exist in a weak or strong nonlocality regime, defined by the sign of a characteristic parameter. It is demonstrated analytically that these solitons satisfy an effective cylindrical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (aka Johnson's) equation and, as such, can be written explicitly in closed form. Numerical simulations show that they propagate undistorted and undergo quasi-elastic collisions, attesting to their stability properties.
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Gao X, Wang J, Zhou L, Yang Z, Ma X, Lu D, Guo Q, Hu W. Observation of surface dark solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media. OPTICS LETTERS 2014; 39:3760-3763. [PMID: 24978730 DOI: 10.1364/ol.39.003760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We investigated surface dark solitons (SDSs) at the interface between a self-defocusing nonlocal nonlinear medium and a linear medium, both theoretically and experimentally. We demonstrate that fundamental and higher-order SDSs can exist when the linear refractive index of the self-defocusing medium is much greater than that of the linear medium. The fundamental and second-order solitons are observed at the interface between air and a weakly absorbing liquid.
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Chen L, Wang Q, Shen M, Zhao H, Lin YY, Jeng CC, Lee RK, Krolikowski W. Nonlocal dark solitons under competing cubic-quintic nonlinearities. OPTICS LETTERS 2013; 38:13-15. [PMID: 23282822 DOI: 10.1364/ol.38.000013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We investigate properties of dark solitons under competing nonlocal cubic-local quintic nonlinearities. Analytical results, based on a variational approach and confirmed by direct numerical simulations, reveal the existence of a unique dark soliton solutions with their width being independent of the degree of nonlocality, due to the competing cubic-quintic nonlinearities.
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- L Chen
- Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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Li H, Shi Z, Jiang X, Zhu X. Gray solitons in parity-time symmetric potentials. OPTICS LETTERS 2011; 36:3290-3292. [PMID: 21847237 DOI: 10.1364/ol.36.003290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We numerically study the gray solitons in parity-time (PT) symmetric potentials. Simulated results show that there are two kinds of gray solitons, the dip-shaped gray solitons and the hump-shaped solitons, and both of them can be stable. Hump-shaped solitons can always exist, but the grayness of a stable dip-shaped gray soliton should exceed a threshold value. More interesting, it is discovered that when propagating in PT symmetric potentials, the gray solitons have no transverse deviation, and this is a phenomenon different from the usual gray solitons.
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- Huagang Li
- Department of Physics, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou 510303, China
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Piccardi A, Alberucci A, Tabiryan N, Assanto G. Dark nematicons. OPTICS LETTERS 2011; 36:1356-1358. [PMID: 21499355 DOI: 10.1364/ol.36.001356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We experimentally demonstrate and model dark spatial solitons in azo-doped liquid crystals, in the presence of saturation and nonlocality of the effective nonlinearity due to changes in molecular order. The guiding properties of dark solitons are probed with a weak input of different wavelength.
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- A Piccardi
- Nonlinear Optics and OptoELectronics Laboratory (NooEL) Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy
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Conti C, Schmidt MA, Russell PSJ, Biancalana F. Highly noninstantaneous solitons in liquid-core photonic crystal fibers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:263902. [PMID: 21231664 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.263902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The nonlinear propagation of pulses in liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers is considered. Because of the slow reorientational nonlinearity of some molecular liquids, the nonlinear modes propagating inside such structures can be approximated, for pulse durations much shorter than the molecular relaxation time, by temporally highly nonlocal solitons, analytical solutions of a linear Schrödinger equation. The physical relevance of these novel solitons is discussed.
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- Claudio Conti
- CNR-ISC, Department of Physics, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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Conti C, DelRe E. Optical supercavitation in soft matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:118301. [PMID: 20867613 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.118301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2010] [Revised: 08/03/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We investigate theoretically, numerically, and experimentally nonlinear optical waves in an absorbing out-of-equilibrium colloidal material at the gelification transition. At a sufficiently high optical intensity, absorption is frustrated and light propagates into the medium. The process is mediated by the formation of a matter-shock wave due to optically induced thermodiffusion and largely resembles the mechanism of hydrodynamical supercavitation, as it is accompanied by a dynamic phase-transition region between the beam and the absorbing material.
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- C Conti
- CNR-ISC Institute for Complex Systems, Department of Physics, University Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Kong Q, Wang Q, Bang O, Krolikowski W. Analytical theory of dark nonlocal solitons. OPTICS LETTERS 2010; 35:2152-2154. [PMID: 20596177 DOI: 10.1364/ol.35.002152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We investigate properties of dark solitons in nonlocal materials with an arbitrary degree of nonlocality. We employ the variational technique and describe dark solitons, for the first time to our knowledge, in the whole range of degree of nonlocality.
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- Qian Kong
- Laser Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
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Folli V, Conti C. Frustrated brownian motion of nonlocal solitary waves. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 104:193901. [PMID: 20866964 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.193901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We investigate the evolution of solitary waves in a nonlocal medium in the presence of disorder. By using a perturbational approach, we show that an increasing degree of nonlocality may largely hamper the brownian motion of self-trapped wave packets. The result is valid for any kind of nonlocality and in the presence of nonparaxial effects. Analytical predictions are compared with numerical simulations based on stochastic partial differential equations.
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- V Folli
- Department of Physics, University Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Ouyang S, Guo Q. Dark and gray spatial optical solitons in Kerr-type nonlocal media. OPTICS EXPRESS 2009; 17:5170-5175. [PMID: 19333281 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.005170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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With the spectral renormalization method (the Fourier iteration method) we compute dark/gray soliton solutions in Kerr-type nonlocal media and find it agrees well with the analytical results. It is indicated when the characteristic nonlocal length is less than a certain critical value, the gray soliton's maximal transverse velocity does not vary with the characteristic nonlocal length, otherwise such maximal velocity decreases with the characteristic nonlocal length.
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- Shigen Ouyang
- Laboratory of Photonic Information Technology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, PR China.
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Conti C, Fratalocchi A, Peccianti M, Ruocco G, Trillo S. Observation of a gradient catastrophe generating solitons. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 102:083902. [PMID: 19257740 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.083902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We investigate the propagation of a dark beam in a defocusing medium in the strong nonlinear regime. We observe for the first time a shock fan filled with noninteracting one-dimensional gray solitons that emanates from a gradient catastrophe developing around a null of the optical intensity. This scenario turns out to be very robust, persisting also when the material nonlocal response averages the nonlinearity over dimensions much larger than the emerging soliton filaments.
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- Claudio Conti
- Research Center SOFT INFM-CNR, Università di Roma La Sapienza, P. A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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