Energy-Exchange Interactions between Colliding Vector Solitons
- 20 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (12) , 2332-2335
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.2332
Abstract
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.Keywords
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