Vortex-stripe soliton interactions.
We study the interaction of an optical vortex soliton with a dark-soliton stripe in a bulk nonlinear defocusing medium. We develop a multiscale asymptotic theory to predict the main effect of the interaction and then study it experimentally, observing vortex-induced stripe bending, development of the transverse instability, and stripe breakup.
Kivshar
Y S
YS
Nepomnyashchy
A
A
Tikhonenko
V
V
Christou
J
J
Luther-Davies
B
B