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Soliton Fission
Here, two light bullets pass through each other
in a quasi-soliton fashion. However, rather than shed energy into the
surrounding volume, as they leave the collision the bullets "pinch off" to
form a third stationary state. Amazingly, the
total energy of the three final solitons almost exactly equals that of the
two incident light bullets.
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