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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