Rotating propeller solitons.
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 degrees of rotation over 13 mm of propagation (6.5 diffraction lengths).
Carmon
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Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Uzdin
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Pigier
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Musslimani
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Segev
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Nepomnyashchy
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