Observation of a gradient catastrophe generating solitons

Details Observation of a gradient catastrophe generating solitons Observation of a gradient catastrophe generating solitons

2008-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/0809.3407v1

Physics

Optics

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.083902

We investigate the propagation of a dark beam in a defocusing medium in the strong nonlinear regime. We observe for the first time a shock fan filled with non-interacting one-dimensional grey solitons that emanates from a gradient catastrophe developing around a null of the optical intensity. Remarkably this scenario turns out to be very robust, persisting also when the material nonlocal response averages the nonlinearity over dimensions much larger than the emerging soliton filaments.

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