Collision-Induced Shape Transformations of Partially Coherent Solitons

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1999

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Akhmediev, Nail
Luther-Davies, Barry
Krolikowski, Wieslaw

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American Physical Society

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We present experimental results related to collisional properties of partially coherent solitons (PCSs). In experiments with a photorefractive crystal we show that collisions in nonlinear media cause the PCS comprised of few mutually incoherent soliton components to change its shape.

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Physical Review E

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