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We report on the experimental observation of two-dimensional dipole-mode vector solitons. We demonstrate a decay of an unstable vortex-mode soliton into a robust dipole-mode soliton in a SBN crystal.
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Weilnau, C. et al. (2001). Observation of Dipole-Mode Vector Solitons. In: Boardman, A.D., Sukhorukov, A.P. (eds) Soliton-driven Photonics. NATO Science Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0682-8_23
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