Observation of Optical Spatial Solitons in a Highly Nonlocal Medium
Abstract
We report on the observation and quantitative assessment of self-trapped pulsating beams in a highly nonlocal 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.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 2004
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0403032
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvL..92k3902C
- Keywords:
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- 42.65.Tg;
- 05.45.-a;
- 42.70.Df;
- 42.70.Mp;
- Optical solitons;
- nonlinear guided waves;
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos;
- Liquid crystals;
- Nonlinear optical crystals;
- Optics;
- Pattern Formation and Solitons
- E-Print:
- 16 pages, 3 figures