Scattering of light by molecules of light
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We study the scattering properties of optical dipole-mode vector solitons recently predicted theoretically and generated in a laboratory. We demonstrate that such a radially asymmetric composite self-trapped state resembles ``a molecule of light'' which is extremely robust, survives a wide range of collisions, and displays new phenomena such as the transformation of a linear momentum into an angular momentum, etc.We present also experimental verifications of some of our predictions.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0006047,
title = {Scattering of light by molecules of light},
author = {J. J. Garcia-Ripoll and V. M. Perez-Garcia and W. Krolikowski and Y. S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0006047},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 5 postscript figures