posted on 2023-06-08, 15:39authored byMarco Peccianti, A Dyadyusha, M Kaczmarek, G Assanto
Solitons propagating within a confining potential undergo momentum-dependent scattering and eventually escape for large excitations. We experimentally highlight this phenomenon in the presence of a nonperturbative nonlinear response using self-confined light beams in a reorientational medium.