FUSION AND BIRTH OF SPATIAL SOLITONS UPON COLLISION

Authors
KROLIKOWSKI W HOLMSTROM SA
Citation
W. Krolikowski et Sa. Holmstrom, FUSION AND BIRTH OF SPATIAL SOLITONS UPON COLLISION, Optics letters, 22(6), 1997, pp. 369-371
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
22
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
369 - 371
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1997)22:6<369:FABOSS>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We study experimentally the collision of photorefractive screening sol itons in a strontium barium niobate crystal. Depending on the relative phase of the solitons and their intersecting angle, such effects as s oliton birth, energy exchange, and soliton fusion have been observed. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.