Asymmetric partially coherent solitons in saturable nonlinear media.
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.
Litchinitser
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The Institute of Optics and Rochester Theory Center of Optical Sciences and Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
Królikowski
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Akhmediev
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Agrawal
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