Title

Optical Spatial Solitons And Their Interactions: Universality And Diversity

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.

Publication Date

11-19-1999

Publication Title

Science

Volume

286

Issue

5444

Number of Pages

1518-1523

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.286.5444.1518

Socpus ID

0033584790 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0033584790

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