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Preparation of Free-Surface Hyperbolic Water Vortices
Published on: July 28, 2023
Changming Huang1, Fangwei Ye, Boris A Malomed
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Physics Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Abstract:
We demonstrate the existence and stability of bright vortex solitons sustained by a ring-shaped parametric gain, for both focusing and defocusing Kerr nonlinearities in lossy optical media. With the defocusing nonlinearity, the vortices are stable at all values of the detuning parameter, while under the focusing nonlinearity their stability region is limited to some positive values of the detuning. Unstable vortices in the focusing medium transform into stable rotating azimuthons.
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