MIDIT OFD CATS Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics Optics and Fluid Dynamics Chaos and Turbulence Studies and Irreversible Thermodynamics Risø National Laboratory Niels Bohr Institute and Technical University of Denmark Building 128 Department of Chemistry Building 321 P.O. Box 49 University of Copenhagen DK-2800 Lyngby DK-4000 Roskilde DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark Denmark Denmark
by Elena Ostrovskaya
Optical Sciences Centre
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
MIDIT-seminar 446
Thursday April 22, 1999, 14.00 h
at MIDIT, IMM Building 305, room 027
Abstract: Multi-hump optical solitons are complex dynamic objects created by two or more interacting light beams. By means of linear stability analysis and numerical simulations, we investigate the stability of two- and three-hump solitary waves governed by incoherent beam interaction in a saturable medium. We demonstrate that, in contrast with what was previously believed, multi-hump solitary waves can be stable in a wide domain of their existence. Our study provides a theoretical background for the recently reported experimental results.