Abstract
It was recently demonstrated that a slow self-focusing nonlinear medium can support partially coherent solitons [1,2]. The necessary condition for soliton formation is that the nonlinear response is slow compared to the fast and random fluctuations of the phase front of the incident optical beam.
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