Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 10, 100602(2011)

Collisions between two dissipative optical bullets separated in space

Ya Li, Long Luo, and Yi Tang
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  • Department of Physics and Institute of Modern Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
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    We present the numerical results of both head-on and non-head-on collisions between two stable dissipative optical bullets (DOBs) in a three-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with cubic-quintic nonlinearity. The system parameters chosen are in the coexistence regions for both stationary DOBs and double bullet complexes (DBCs). By varying the initial velocities v and the impact parameters P which represent the distance between the parallel trajectories of colliding bullets, we observe three generic properties of the bullets: fusion, fission, and quasi-elastic collisions. A novel and interesting behavior is observed in the results, in which two or three DBCs occur in non-head-on collisions at intermediate values of v.

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    Received: Feb. 23, 2011

    Accepted: Apr. 21, 2011

    Published Online: Jul. 13, 2011

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    DOI:10.3788/col201109.100602

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