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Optical Spatial Solitons and Their Interactions: Universality and Diversity

Year: 1999

Type: article

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.

Source: Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5444.1518

Authors: George I. Stegeman, Mordechai Segev

Institutions: University of Central Florida, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Nonlinear Photonic Systems

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2095669631

FWCI: 26.69

Cites: 88

Cited by: 1,165

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