title: Two-dimensional multipole solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media.
abstract: We present the experimental observation of scalar multipole solitons in highly nonlocal nonlinear media, including dipole, tripole, quadrupole, and necklace-type solitons, organized as arrays of out-of-phase bright spots. These complex solitons are metastable, but with a large parameters range where the instability is weak, permitting their experimental observation.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israel. carmelr@tx.technion.ac.il
authors.forename: Carmel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rotschild
authors.forename: Mordechai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segev
authors.forename: Zhiyong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yaroslav V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Kartashov
authors.forename: Lluis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Torner
authors.forename: Oren
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cohen