Abstract
Two-component (vector) spatial solitons are more complicated objects then scalar solitons.1–3 These are optical beams with two polarization components that influence each other through several physical effects such as self-phase-modulation effect, cross-phase- modulation effect, and four-wave-mixing effect. An interplay between the three above-mentioned effects gives novel features to stationary solutions of this system and is responsible for complicated polarization dynamics of nonstationary beams such as polarization instability.4 Recently, Manakov spatial solitons, a special case of a two-component solitons, were observed in AIGaAs planar waveguides.5 However, general polarization dynamics of Two-component solitons in real materials, to the best of our knowledge, has not yet been observed.
© 1997 Optical Society of America
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