Observation of optical spatial solitons in a highly nonlocal medium

2004/03/03 by Claudio Conti, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.optics #nlin.PS

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.92.113902

16 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2004/03/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We report on the observation and quantitative assessment of self-trapped pulsating beams in a highly non-local nonlinear regime. The experiments were conducted in nematic liquid crystals and allow a meaningful comparison with the prediction of a scalar theory in the perturbative limit, while addressing the need for beyond-paraxial analytical treatments.

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