Do interacting spatial solitons conserve angular momentum?

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 43-44

  Shih, Ming Feng ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Salamo, Greg ^b   Kivshar, Yuri ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0010166427     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.8.12.000043     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. N.J. Zabusky and M.D. Kruskal, "Interaction of solitons in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial States," Phys. Rev. Lett. 15, 240 (1965).
2. At present, three distinct nonlinear mechanisms have been shown to support 2-D spatial solitons: The photorefractive nonlinearity [see, e.g., G.G. Duree et al., Observation of self-trapping of an optical beam due to the photorefractive effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 553 (1993)], the quadratic non-linearity [ W.E. Torruellas et al., "Observation of two-dimensional spatial solitary waves in a quadratic medium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 5036 (1995)], and the vicinity of an electronic resonance [ V. Tikhonenko et al., "Three dimensional bright spatial soliton collision and fusion in a saturable nonlinear medium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2698 (1996)].
3. At present, three distinct nonlinear mechanisms have been shown to support 2-D spatial solitons: The photorefractive nonlinearity [see, e.g., G.G. Duree et al., Observation of self-trapping of an optical beam due to the photorefractive effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 553 (1993)], the quadratic non-linearity [ W.E. Torruellas et al., "Observation of two-dimensional spatial solitary waves in a quadratic medium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 5036 (1995)], and the vicinity of an electronic resonance [ V. Tikhonenko et al., "Three dimensional bright spatial soliton collision and fusion in a saturable nonlinear medium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2698 (1996)].
4. At present, three distinct nonlinear mechanisms have been shown to support 2-D spatial solitons: The photorefractive nonlinearity [see, e.g., G.G. Duree et al., Observation of self-trapping of an optical beam due to the photorefractive effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 553 (1993)], the quadratic non-linearity [ W.E. Torruellas et al., "Observation of two-dimensional spatial solitary waves in a quadratic medium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 5036 (1995)], and the vicinity of an electronic resonance [ V. Tikhonenko et al., "Three dimensional bright spatial soliton collision and fusion in a saturable nonlinear medium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2698 (1996)].
5. Spiraling of spatial solitons was predicted by A. Snyder's group in D.J. Mitchell et al., "Spiraling spatial solitons," Opt. Comm. 85, 59 (1991).
6. M. Shih et al., "Three-dimensional spiraling of interacting spatial solitons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2551 (1997).
7. M. Segev et al., "Steady-state spatial screening solitons in photorefractive materials with external applied field," Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3211 (1994).