Abstract: We reveal that nonlocality can provide a simple physical mechanism for stabilization of multihump optical solitons and present what we believe to be the first example of stable rotating dipole solitons and soliton spiraling, which are known to be unstable in all types of realistic nonlinear media with a local response. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

Keywords: vortex solitons; nonlinear media

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