Optical spatial solitons and modulation instabilities in transparent entangled polymer solutions
Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 23, pp. 2839-2841 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.33.002839
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Abstract
Fully transparent nondilute polydiene solutions exhibit optical nonlinearities when irradiated by a low-power cw laser in the visible. The formation of optical spatial solitons is imaged through phase contrast microscopy. Both
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OCIS Codes
(160.5470) Materials : Polymers
(190.6135) Nonlinear optics : Spatial solitons
ToC Category:
Materials
History
Original Manuscript: July 28, 2008
Revised Manuscript: September 17, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: October 11, 2008
Published: November 25, 2008
Citation
Manos Anyfantakis, Benoit Loppinet, George Fytas, and Stergios Pispas, "Optical spatial solitons and modulation instabilities in transparent entangled polymer solutions," Opt. Lett. 33, 2839-2841 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-33-23-2839
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