Mcdonald, GS, Syed, KS and Firth, WJ 1993, 'Dark spatial soliton break-up in the transverse plane' , Optics Communications, 95 (4-6) , pp. 281-288.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/0030-4018(93)90679-Y
Abstract
We report on numerical simulations investigating the instabilities which arise when dark soliton solutions of the two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear Schrödinger equation are allowed to propagate in a 3D self-defocussing medium. Firstly, propagation of fully 3D gaussians beams is studied. Then, on plane background, small sinusoidal and random perturbations are considered. We demonstrate break-up of the dark soliton profile into patterns of dark spots which are identified as phase singularities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Themes: | Energy Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy Subjects outside of the University Themes |
Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre (SIRC) |
Journal or Publication Title: | Optics Communications |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
ISSN: | 0030-4018 |
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Depositing User: | GS McDonald |
Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2011 11:26 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2017 02:06 |
URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/18351 |
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