Observation of azimuthal modulational instability and formation of patterns of optical solitons in a quadratic nonlinear crystal
Optics Letters, Vol. 23, Issue 18, pp. 1444-1446 (1998)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.23.001444
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Abstract
We report what is believed to be the first experimental demonstration of the azimuthal self-breaking of intense beams containing a vortex phase dislocation into sets of optical spatial solitons in a quadratic nonlinear material. The observations were performed in a KTP crystal.
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OCIS Codes
(190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
(190.3100) Nonlinear optics : Instabilities and chaos
(330.5000) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision - patterns and recognition
Citation
Dmitri V. Petrov, Lluis Torner, Jordi Martorell, Ramon Vilaseca, Juan P. Torres, and Crina Cojocaru, "Observation of azimuthal modulational instability and formation of patterns of optical solitons in a quadratic nonlinear crystal," Opt. Lett. 23, 1444-1446 (1998)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-23-18-1444
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