Clustering of solitons in weakly correlated wavefronts.
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the spontaneous clustering of solitons in partially coherent wavefronts during the final stages of pattern formation initiated by modulation instability and noise.
Chen
Zhigang
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Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel; Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015; and Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Sears
Suzanne M
SM
Martin
Hector
H
Christodoulides
Demetrios N
DN
Segev
Mordechai
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