Berezhiani V I, Skarka V, Aleksić N B
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Nov;64(5 Pt 2):057601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.057601. Epub 2001 Oct 18.
The nonlinear dynamics of laser beams carrying phase singularity in media with cubic-quintic nonlinearity changing from self-focusing to self-defocusing is examined. A novel kind of stable nonlocalized optical vortices appears in such media as well as localized vortex solitons. Linear stability analysis and numerical simulations show the stability of localized vortices only in the defocusing region.