Collisions between Optical Spatial Solitons Propagating in Opposite Directions

Oren Cohen; Raam Uzdin; Tal Carmon; Jason W. Fleischer; Mordechai Segev; Serguey Odoulov

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.133901

Collisions between Optical Spatial Solitons Propagating in Opposite Directions

Oren Cohen, Raam Uzdin, Tal Carmon, Jason W. Fleischer, Mordechai Segev, Serguey Odoulov

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We formulate the theory describing the evolution and interactions between optical spatial solitons that propagate in opposite directions. We show that coherent collisions between counterpropagating solitons give rise to a new focusing mechanism resulting from the interference between the beams, and that interactions between such solitons are insensitive to the relative phase between the beams.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	89
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.133901
State	Published - 2002

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