Abstract
We demonstrate numerically and experimentally that self-trapped optical dipolemode vector soliton resembles “a molecule of light”. It is extremely robust, survives a wide range of collisions, and displays new phenomena such as the transformation of a linear momentum into an angular momentum, etc.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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