Breathing Airy-Gaussian solitons and bound states in nonlocal nonlinear media: ranging from formation to arbitrary control

We numerically demonstrate the anomalous interactions of in-phase and out-of-phase Airy-Gaussian beams with intense excitation in nonlocal nonlinear (NL) media. We show that the stationary breathing Airy-Gaussian solitons and bound states can be formed with proper choice of the initial parameters. We report besides the traditional straight trajectory that the breathing Airy-Gaussian solitons can propagate along the sinusoidal trajectories, and the sinusoidal trajectories can be controlled arbitrarily. Moreover, we show the impacts of decay constant on the interaction dynamics of Airy-Gaussian beams in nonlocal NL media in detail. Interestingly, we find that the nonoverlapping bound states of Airy-Gaussian solitons can be formed in the interactions between two out-of-phase Airy-Gaussian beams. (c) 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)