Observation of Multihump Multimode Solitons
- 25 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (21) , 4657-4660
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.4657
Abstract
We present the first experimental observation of multihump multimode solitons in nature. In a broader perspective, this is the first observation of a multihumped multimode self-trapped wave packet propagating in a dispersive nonlinear medium. Double- and triple-humped spatial profiles are found by incoherent population of two modes of the beams' self-induced waveguide (self-induced potential well).Keywords
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