Abstract
We study wave collapse in a nonlinear self-focusing medium with nonlocal response. The nonlocality arrests catastrophic collapse and creates focusing-defocusing oscillations. Right before maximum collapse, we observe a transverse peakon-like profile with exponentially-decaying tails.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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