Abstract
We report what is believed to be the first experimental demonstration of the azimuthal self-breaking of intense beams containing a vortex phase dislocation into sets of optical spatial solitons in a quadratic nonlinear material. The observations were performed in a KTP crystal.
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Dmitri V. Petrov, Lluis Torner, Jordi Martorell, Ramon Vilaseca, Juan P. Torres, and Crina Cojocaru, "Observation of azimuthal modulation instability and formation of patterns of optical solitons in a quadratic crystal:?errata," Opt. Lett. 23, 1787-1787 (1998)https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-23-22-1787
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