Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 143901 (2001) [4 pages]Rotating Propeller Solitons |
Tal Carmon, Raam Uzdin, Claude Pigier, Ziad H. Musslimani, Mordechai Segev, and A. Nepomnyashchy
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Received 22 September 2000; published 17 September 2001
We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically (both analytically and numerically) a new type of spatial soliton: a rotating “propeller” soliton. This is a composite soliton made of a rotating dipole component jointly trapped with a bell-shaped component. We observe as much as 239° of rotation over 13 mm of propagation (6.5 diffraction lengths).
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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v87/e143901
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.143901
PACS: 42.65.Tg, 05.45.Yv
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