Symmetry-breaking instability of multimode vector solitons

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作者：

Cambournac, C

Sylvestre, T

Maillotte, H

Vanderlinden, B

Kockaert, P

Emplit, P

Haelterman, M

机构：

[1] Univ Franche Comte, Lab Opt PM Duffieux, CNRS, UMR 6603, F-25030 Besancon, France

[2] Free Univ Brussels, Serv Opt & Acoust, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2002年 / 89卷 / 08期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.083901

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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 CS2 planar waveguide using the orthogonal circular polarization states of light as the two components of the vector soliton.

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页码：083901/1 / 083901/4

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