Observation of elliptic incoherent spatial solitons

    Authors

    O. Katz; T. Carmon; T. Schwartz; M. Segev;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    PHOTOREFRACTIVE SCREENING SOLITONS; SATURABLE NONLINEAR MEDIA; LIGHT; BEAMS; ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALS; BRIGHT; FIELD; DARK; Optics

    Abstract

    We present the first experimental observation of spatially incoherent elliptic solitons. We use partially spatially incoherent light with anisotropic correlation statistics and observe elliptic solitons supported by the photorefractive screening nonlinearity. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    29

    Issue/Number

    11

    Publication Date

    1-1-2004

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1248

    Last Page

    1250

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000221482100026

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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