title: Observation of the snake instability of a spatially extended temporal bright soliton.
abstract: The transverse snake instability of the bright soliton solution of the (2+1)-dimensional hyperbolic nonlinear Schrödinger equation is experimentally studied. We observed this instability in the spatial distribution of the temporal spectrum of spatially extended femtosecond pulses propagating in normally dispersive self-defocusing planar semiconductor waveguide.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Optique et Acoustique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. s.gorza1@physics.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: S-P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Gorza
authors.forename: Ph
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Emplit
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haelterman