Coherence controlled soliton interactions

被引：63

作者：

Ku, TS ^{[1
]}

Shih, MF

Sukhorukov, AA

Kivshar, YS

机构：

[1] Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei 106, Taiwan

[2] Australian Natl Univ, Nonlinear Phys Ctr, Res Sch Phys Sci & Engn, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2005年 / 94卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.063904

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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.

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