Three Dimensional Bright Spatial Soliton Collision and Fusion in a Saturable Nonlinear Medium
- 8 April 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 76 (15), 2698-2701
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.76.2698
Abstract
We report experiments showing of the attraction and novel fusion behavior of 3D bright spatial solitons, formed by modulation instability of an optical vortex in a saturable self-focusing medium.Keywords
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