We consider the collision behavior of self-trapped optical beams in media with a quadratic nonlinearity. It is found that the solitary waves behave similarly to true solitons above a critical velocity. Below this velocity they merge and form oscillating states.
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Etrich et al. (1995) studied this question.
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