Symmetry-Breaking Instability of Multimode Vector Solitons
- 31 July 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 89 (8) , 083901
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.083901
Abstract
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 planar waveguide using the orthogonal circular polarization states of light as the two components of the vector soliton.
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