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Optical solitons; spinning solitons; spiral solitons

We review recent theoretical results concerning the existence, stability and unique features of families of bright vortex solitons (doughnuts, or ‘spinning’ solitons) in both conservative and dissipative cubic-quintic nonlinear media.

Lucian-Cornel Crasovan¹ Boris A Malomed² Dumitru Mihalache¹

1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Atomic Physics, P.O. Box MG-6, Bucharest, Romania
2. Department of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv - 69978, Israel

Published

12 November 2001