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Stable propagation of cylindrical-vector vortex solitons in strongly nonlocal media
Abstract:
We report the experimental observation of cylindrical-vector vortex solitons (CVVSs) in lead glass with strongly thermal nonlocal nonlinearity. The formations of radially and angularly polarized solitons with topological charge of $l = 1$ were observed. We show that the ring profiles and the polarization distributions of the two first-order CVVSs can be preserved. We numerically prove that the first-order CVVS is stable, and the higher-order CVVSs with $l \ge 2$ are unstable based on the linear stability analysis method.
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