We investigate how optical vortices, which tend to be azimuthally unstable in local nonlinear materials, can be stabilized by a copropagating coaxial spatial solitary wave in nonlocal, nonlinear media. We focus on the formation of nonlinear vortex-soliton vector beams in reorientational soft matter, namely nematic liquid crystals, and report on experimental results, as well as numerical simulations.
Izdebskaya, Y.V., Krolikowski, W., Smyth, N.F., & Assanto, G. (2016). vortex stabilization by means of spatial solitons in nonlocal media. JOURNAL OF OPTICS, 18(5), 054006.
Titolo: | vortex stabilization by means of spatial solitons in nonlocal media |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2016 |
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Citazione: | Izdebskaya, Y.V., Krolikowski, W., Smyth, N.F., & Assanto, G. (2016). vortex stabilization by means of spatial solitons in nonlocal media. JOURNAL OF OPTICS, 18(5), 054006. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11590/294368 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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