The ability to control the path of optical spatial solitons — non-spreading filaments of light that travel through a bulk nonlinear medium — could aid their use in signal processing and other photonics applications.
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Kivshar, Y. Bending light at will. Nature Phys 2, 729–730 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys452
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