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Snake instability of a spatiotemporal bright soliton stripe
1Service d'Optique et Acoustique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue Roosevelt, CP 194/5, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Abstract:
We study experimentally the snake instability of the bright soliton stripe of the (2+1)-dimensional hyperbolic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The instability is observed, through spectral measurements, on spatially extended femtosecond pulses propagating in a normally dispersive self-defocusing semiconductor planar waveguide.
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