Escaping solitons from a trapping potential.
Solitons propagating within a confining potential undergo momentum-dependent scattering and eventually escape for large excitations. We experimentally highlight this phenomenon in the presence of a nonperturbative nonlinear response using self-confined light beams in a reorientational medium.
Peccianti
Marco
M
Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, INFN and CNISM, University Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146, Rome, Italy. m.peccianti@gmail.com
Dyadyusha
Andriy
A
Kaczmarek
Malgosia
M
Assanto
Gaetano
G