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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 053902 (2010) [4 pages]

Suppression of Collapse for Spiraling Elliptic Solitons

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Anton S. Desyatnikov1, Daniel Buccoliero1, Mark R. Dennis2, and Yuri S. Kivshar1
1Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
2H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom

Received 24 August 2009; published 5 February 2010

We reveal that orbital angular momentum can suppress catastrophic self-focusing in nonlinear Kerr media supporting stable spiraling solitons with an elliptic cross section. We discuss the necessary requirements for observation of this effect with coherent optical and matter waves.

© 2010 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.053902
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.053902
PACS:
42.65.Tg, 42.65.Hw, 42.65.Pc
 
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