Symmetry-breaking instability of multimode vector solitons

Symmetry-breaking instability of multimode vector solitons

We show experimentally that the two-component multimode spatial optical vector soliton, i.e., a two-hump self-guided laser beam, exhibits in Kerr media a sharp space-inversion symmetry-breaking instability. The experiment is performed in a CS2 planar waveguide using the orthogonal circular polarizat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2002-08, Vol.89 (8), p.083901-083901, Article 083901
Hauptverfasser: Cambournac, C, Sylvestre, T, Maillotte, H, Vanderlinden, B, Kockaert, P, Emplit, Ph, Haelterman, M
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We show experimentally that the two-component multimode spatial optical vector soliton, i.e., a two-hump self-guided laser beam, exhibits in Kerr media a sharp space-inversion symmetry-breaking instability. The experiment is performed in a CS2 planar waveguide using the orthogonal circular polarization states of light as the two components of the vector soliton.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.083901