Collisions between type II two-dimensional quadratic solitons

Opt Lett. 1998 Mar 15;23(6):424-6. doi: 10.1364/ol.23.000424.

Abstract

We report experimental and numerical results that describe collisions between two-dimensional type II quadratic solitons excited in a KTP crystal by fundamental waves of orthogonal polarization. Our results provide experimental evidence of the possibility of both inelastic collision (when two quadratic solitons merge at input into a single soliton at output) and quasi-elastic collision.