Rotating Ring Bright Solitons

Abstract

Optical solitons have been observed experimentally for the first time as temporal solitons in optical fibers and then as spatial solitons — self-trapped beams [1-3]. As the circular-symmetry beam in a Kerr medium is unstable displaying blow-up and collapse, spatial solitons have been observed in bulk media as soliton strips or in planar waveguide geometries.