Two - dimensional solitons in media with the stripe - shaped nonlinearity modulation

Details Two - dimensional solitons in media with the stripe - shaped nonlinearity modulation Two - dimensional solitons in media with the stripe - shaped nonlinearity modulation

2010-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/1006.3687v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

9 pages, 15 figures

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We introduce a model of media with the cubic attractive nonlinearity concentrated along a single or double stripe in the two-dimensional (2D) plane. The model can be realized in terms of nonlinear optics (in the spatial and temporal domains alike) and BEC. In recent works, it was concluded that search for stable 2D solitons in models with a spatially localized self-attractive nonlinearity is a challenging problem. We make use of the variational approximation (VA) and numerical methods to investigate conditions for the existence and stability of solitons in the present setting. The result crucially depends on the transverse shape of the stripe: while the rectangular profile supports stable 2D solitons, its smooth Gaussian-shaped counterpart makes all the solitons unstable. The double stripe with the rectangular profile admit stable solitons of three distinct types: symmetric and asymmetric ones with a single peak, and double-peak symmetric solitons. The shape and stability of single-peak solitons of either type are accurately predicted by the VA. Collisions between stable solitons are briefly considered too, by means of direct simulations. Depending on the relative velocity we observe excitation, decay or catastrophic self focusing.

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