  The interaction of both scalar and counter-rotating polarized steady state
pulses (SSP) is studied numerically for a medium characterized by nonlinear
susceptibilities of the third and the fifth order (a cubic-quintic medium
with,$\chi_{3}>0,\chi_{5}<0$). The collision of two plateau-shaped solitons
proved to be essentially inelastic, as a number of secondary elliptically
polarized solitary waves arise as a result of interaction of steady-state
pulses.
