Vortex soliton motion and steering.
Experimental demonstration of the steering of an optical vortex soliton by the superposition of a weak coherent background field is presented. A model to account for vortex motion is derived, and its validity is verified experimentally and numerically.
Christou
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Tikhonenko
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Kivshar
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Luther-Davies
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