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Formation and interaction of self-guided optical beams in a pre-engineered soft-matter system

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Abstract

We demonstrate stable beam self-trapping in soft-matter systems with artificial saturable self-focusing nonlinearities. Our experiments reveal optical beam interactions that can vary from attractive to repulsive as well as an energy exchange.

© 2013 Optical Society of America

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