Interactions between self-channeled optical beams in soft-matter systems with artificial nonlinearities

    Authors

    S. Fardad; M. S. Mills; P. Zhang; W. N. Man; Z. G. Chen;D. N. Christodoulides

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    SPATIAL SOLITONS; LIGHT; MEDIA; INSTABILITIES; Optics

    Abstract

    We demonstrate optical interactions between stable self-trapped optical beams in soft-matter systems with pre-engineered saturable self-focusing optical nonlinearities. Our experiments, carried out in dilute suspensions of particles with negative polarizabilities, show that optical beam interactions can vary from attractive to repulsive, or can display an energy exchange depending on the initial relative phases. The corresponding observations are in good agreement with theoretical predictions. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    38

    Issue/Number

    18

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    3585

    Last Page

    3587

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000325212800030

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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