Abstract
The formation and interaction of 3D bright spatial and optical vortex solitons were experimentally investigated in a resonance nonlinear medium. Aspects of soliton instability, attraction, repulsion and fusion, under conditions of saturating nonlinearity, are discussed.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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