Abstract
We show experimentally that the two-component two-hump vector soliton exhibits a sharp left-right symmetry-breaking instability in Kerr media. The experiment is performed using molecular re-orientation in CS2 and the opposite circular polarization states of light as the two components of the vector soliton.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
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