Abstract: The first experimental observation to the authors' knowledge is reported of the generation of optical vortex solitons from instability and breakup of a dark soliton stripe propagating through a saturable self-defocusing nonlinear medium.

Keywords: optical vortex; spatial solitons; media; beam

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