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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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