Accessible solitons in diffusive media
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Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4317-4320 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 15 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2014 |
| Publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Abstract
We investigate spatial solitons in nonlocal media with a nonlinear index well modeled by a diffusive equation. We address the role of nonlocality and its interplay with boundary conditions, shedding light on the behavior of accessible solitons in real samples and discussing the accuracy of the highly nonlocal approximation. We find that symmetric solitons exist only above a power threshold, with an existence region that grows larger and larger with nonlocality in the plane width power. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
Keywords
- NEMATIC LIQUID-CRYSTALS, SOLITARY WAVES, NONLOCALITY, LIGHT