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Saliya Coulibaly1, Majid Taki, Nail Akhmediev
1Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, CNRS UMR 8523, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications, Université de Lille 1 (Sciences et Technologies), Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. saliya.coulibaly@phlam.univ‑lille1.fr
Abstract:
In spatially extended convective systems, the reflection symmetry breaking induced by drift effects leads to a striking nonlinear effect that drastically affects the formation and stability of dissipative solitons in optical parametric oscillators. The phenomenon of nonlinear-induced convection dynamics is revealed using a model of the complex quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation with nonlinear gradient terms in it. Mechanisms leading to stabilization of dissipative solitons by convection are singled out. The predictions are in very good agreement with numerical solutions found from the governing equations of the optical parametric oscillators.
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