Breakup of self-guided light beams into X wave trains

Opt Lett. 2008 Nov 15;33(22):2656-8. doi: 10.1364/ol.33.002656.

Abstract

Relaxation of the nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamics of cylindrically symmetric Schrödinger solitons due to their temporal modulation instability leads to soliton breakup into a train of X waves.