Scattering of dipole-mode vector solitons: Theory and experiment
Wieslaw Krolikowski, Glen McCarthy, Yuri S. Kivshar, Carsten Weilnau, Cornelia Denz, Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll, Victor M. Perez-Garcia
Abstract
We study, both theoretically and experimentally, the scattering properties of optical dipole-mode vector solitons - radially asymmetric composite self-trapped optical beams. First, we analyze the soliton collisions in an isotropic two-component model with a saturable nonlinearity and demonstrate that in many cases the scattering dynamics of the dipole-mode solitons allows us to classify them as ``molecules of light'' - extremely robust spatially localized objects which survive a wide range of interactions and display many properties of composite states with a rotational degree of freedom. Next, we study the composite solitons in an anisotropic nonlinear model that describes photorefractive nonlinearities, and also present a number of experimental verifications of our analysis.
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