title: Asymmetric partially coherent solitons in saturable nonlinear media.
abstract: We investigate theoretically properties of partially coherent solitons in optical nonlinear media with slow saturable nonlinearity. We have found numerically that such a medium can support spatial solitons which are asymmetric in shape and are composed of only a finite number of modes associated with the self-induced waveguide. It is shown that these asymmetric spatial solitons can propagate many diffraction lengths without changes, but that collisions change their shape and may split them apart.
authors.affiliation: The Institute of Optics and Rochester Theory Center of Optical Sciences and Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Litchinitser
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Królikowski
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Akhmediev
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Agrawal