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Observation of self-similar nonlinear wave collapse

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Abstract

We show that during self-focusing induced collapse of a laser beam, the spatial profile evolves into the same cylindrically symmetric shape, known as the Townes soliton, regardless of the shape of the input beam profile.

© 2002 Optical Society of America

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