Dark spatial soliton break-up in the transverse plane

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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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
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
Related URLs:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
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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