Coherence controlled soliton interactions

Ting Sen Ku; Ming Feng Shih; Andrey A. Sukhorukov; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.063904

Coherence controlled soliton interactions

Ting Sen Ku^*, Ming Feng Shih, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar

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Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically and subsequently observe in experiment a novel type of soliton interaction when a pair of closely spaced spatial optical solitons as a whole is made partially incoherent. We explain how the character of the soliton interaction can be controlled by the total partial incoherence, and show a possibility to change the soliton interaction from attractive to repulsive, or vice versa, near a certain threshold in the coherence parameter.

Original language	English
Article number	063904
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	94
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.063904
Publication status	Published - 18 Feb 2005

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