@ARTICLE\{IMM2000-0325, author = "L. Berg\'{e} and O. Bang and W. Krolikowski", title = "Influence of four-wave mixing and walk-off on the self-focusing of coupled waves", year = "2000", month = "apr", pages = "3302-3305", journal = "Physical Review Letters", volume = "84", editor = "", number = "15", publisher = "The American Physical Society", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/325-full.html", abstract = "Four-wave mixing and walk-off between two optical beams are investigated for focusing Kerr media. It is shown that four-wave mixing reinforces the self-focusing of mutually trapped waves by lowering their power threshold for collapse, only when their phase mismatch is small. On the contrary, walk-off inhibits the collapse by detrapping the beams, whose partial centroids experience nonlinear oscillations." }