Self-bending photorefractive solitons

被引:64
作者
Krolikowski, W
Akhmediev, N
LutherDavies, B
CroninGolomb, M
机构
[1] AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV,RES SCH PHYS SCI & ENGN,CTR OPT SCI,AUSTRALIAN PHOTON COOPERAT RES CTR,CANBERRA,ACT 0200,AUSTRALIA
[2] TUFTS UNIV,CTR ELECTROOPT TECHNOL,MEDFORD,MA 02155
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 1996年 / 54卷 / 05期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.54.5761
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
We found stationary intensity profiles of photorefractive screening solitons in the presence of the diffusion processes. We show that these solitons are stable and in a certain range of parameters they propagate with negligible radiation losses along exactly parabolic trajectories. We studied the collision of screening solitons using numerical simulations. We found that even a small contribution of the diffusion effect leads to strong energy exchange between the colliding photorefractive solitons.
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页码:5761 / 5765
页数:5
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