Optical spatial solitons and their interactions: Universality and diversity

    Authors

    G. I. Stegeman;M. Segev

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Science

    Keywords

    PHOTOREFRACTIVE SCREENING SOLITONS; ALGAAS WAVE-GUIDES; SOLITARY WAVES; QUADRATIC SOLITONS; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; VECTOR SOLITONS; KERR MEDIA; BRIGHT; COLLISION; FIBERS; Multidisciplinary Sciences

    Abstract

    Spatial solitons, beams that do not spread owing to diffraction when they propagate, have been demonstrated to exist by virtue of a variety of nonlinear self-trapping mechanisms. Despite the diversity of these mechanisms, many of the features of soliton interactions and collisions are universal. Spatial solitons exhibit a richness of phenomena not found with temporal solitons in fibers, including effects such as fusion, fission, annihilation, and stable orbiting in three dimensions. Here the current state of knowledge on spatial soliton interactions is reviewed.

    Journal Title

    Science

    Volume

    286

    Issue/Number

    5444

    Publication Date

    1-1-1999

    Document Type

    Review

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1518

    Last Page

    1523

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000083768300046

    ISSN

    0036-8075

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