title: Group interactions of dissipative solitons in a laser cavity: the case of 2+1.
abstract: What can be the outcome of the interaction between a dissipative soliton pair and a soliton singlet? We report an experimental observation of ???elastic??? collisions as well as ???inelastic??? formation of triplet soliton states in a fiber laser setup. These observations are supported with the numerical simulations based on the dispersion (parameter) managed cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation model.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grelu
authors.forename: Nail
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akhmediev