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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2332–2335 (1999)

Energy-Exchange Interactions between Colliding Vector Solitons

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Charalambos Anastassiou1, Mordechai Segev1,2, Ken Steiglitz3, J. A. Giordmaine1,4, Matthew Mitchell1,5, Ming-feng Shih6, Song Lan1, and John Martin7
1Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
2Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
3Computer Science Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
4NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
5Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733
6Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 10764
7Deltronic Crystal Industries, Dover, New Jersey 07801

Received 21 April 1999; published in the issue dated 20 September 1999

We demonstrate experimentally collisions between vector (Manakov-like) solitons that involve energy exchange at large collision angles, for which scalar solitons pass through one another practically unaffected.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2332
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2332
PACS:
42.65.Tg, 05.45.Yv
 
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