Coherence controlled soliton interactions

Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically and subsequently observe in experiment a novel type of soliton interaction when a pair of closely spaced spatial optical solitons as a whole is made partially incoherent. We explain how the character of the soliton interaction can be controlled by the total partial incoherence, and show a possibility to change the soliton interaction from attractive to repulsive, or vice versa, near a certain threshold in the coherence parameter.

4 pages, 4 figures

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• Exact soliton solutions, shape changing collisions and partially coherent solitons in coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations
• Statistical Theory for Incoherent Light Propagation in Nonlinear Media
• Quasiperiodic Envelope Solitons

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