Abstract
We introduce novel classes of higher-order spatial optical solitons, analogous to Laguerre- Gaussian (LG) and Hermite-Gaussian (HG) linear eigenmodes, and demonstrate numerically that modulational instability can lead to nontrivial transformations between solitons of different symmetries.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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