Supermode spatial solitons via competing nonlocal nonlinearities

Authors

  • Pawel Stanislaw Jung
  • Miroslaw Karpierz Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology; CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida
  • Marek Trippenbach Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
  • Demetrios Christodoulides CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida
  • Wieslaw Krolikowski Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University; Science Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v10i2.827

Abstract

We study spatial soliton formation in a system with competing nonlinearities. In doing so, we consider a specific nonlinear response that involves both focusing and defocusing nonlocal contributions. We demonstrate that at a sufficiently high input power level, the interplay between these nonlocal nonlinearities may lead to the formation of in-phase, two-hump, fundamental spatial solitons. The conditions required for the existence of these two-peak spatial solitons are also presented.

Full Text: PDF

References
  1. G. Stegeman and M. Segev, "Optical Spatial Solitons and Their Interactions: Universality and Diversity", Science 286, 1518 (1999). CrossRef
  2. Y. Kivshar and G. P. Agrawal, Optical Solitons: From Fibers to Photonic Crystals (Academic, San Diego, 2003).
  3. P. Varatharajah et al., "Stationary nonlinear surface waves and their stability in diffusive Kerr media", Opt. Lett. 13, 690 (1988). CrossRef
  4. G. Assanto and M. Peccianti, "Spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 39, 13 (2003). CrossRef
  5. G. Assanto, ed. Nematicons: Spatial Optical Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals (Wiley, 2012). CrossRef
  6. O. Bang, W. Krolikowski, J. Wyller, J.J. Rasmussen, "Collapse arrest and soliton stabilization in nonlocal nonlinear media", Phys. Rev. E 66, 046619 (2002). CrossRef
  7. X. Hutsebaut, C. Cambournac, M. Haelterman, A. Adamski, K. Neyts, "Single-component higher-order mode solitons in liquid crystals," Opt. Commun. 333, 211 (2004). CrossRef
  8. C. Conti, M. Peccianti, and G. Assanto, "Route to nonlocality and observation of accessible solitons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073901 (2003). CrossRef
  9. U. A. Laudyn, P. S. Jung, M.A. Karpierz, and G. Assanto, "Quasi two-dimensional astigmatic solitons in soft chiral metastructures," Sci. Rep. 6, 22923 (2016). CrossRef
  10. U. A. Laudyn, P. S. Jung, M. A. Karpierz, G. Assanto, "Power-induced evolution and increased dimensionality of nonlinear modes in reorientational soft matter," Opt. Lett. 39(22), 6399–6402 (2014). CrossRef
  11. Y. V. Izdebskaya, V. G. Shvedov, P. S. Jung, and W. Krolikowski, "Stable vortex soliton in nonlocal media with orientational nonlinearity," Opt. Lett. 43, 66-69 (2018) CrossRef
  12. P.S. Jung, W. Krolikowski, U.A. Laudyn, M. Trippenbach and M.A. Karpierz, "Supermode spatial optical solitons in liquid crystals with competing nonlinearities", Phys. Rev. A 95, 023820 (2017) CrossRef
  13. P.S. Jung, W. Krolikowski, U.A. Laudyn, M.A. Karpierz and M. Trippenbach, "Semi-analytical approach to supermode spatial solitons formation in nematic liquid crystals", Opt. Express 25, 23893 (2017) CrossRef
  14. S. Jungling and J. C. Chen, "A study and optimization of eigenmode calculations using the imaginary-distance beam-propagation method", IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 30, 2098 (1994). CrossRef
  15. P.S. Jung, K. Rutkowska and M.A. Karpierz, "Evanescent field boundary conditions for modelling of light propagation", Journal of Computational Science 25, 115 (2018) CrossRef
  16. A.A. Hardy, W. Streifer, "Coupled mode theory of parallel waveguides," IEEE J. Lightwave Techn. LT-3, 1135 (1985) CrossRef
  17. M. Matuszewski, B.A. Malomed, and M. Trippenbach, "Spontaneous symmetry breaking of solitons trapped in a double channel potential," Phys. Rev. A 75, 063621 (2007) CrossRef

Downloads

Published

2018-06-30

How to Cite

[1]
P. S. Jung, M. Karpierz, M. Trippenbach, D. Christodoulides, and W. Krolikowski, “Supermode spatial solitons via competing nonlocal nonlinearities”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 33–35, Jun. 2018.

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Articles

License

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).