Title

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

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.38.003585

Language

English

First Page

3585

Last Page

3587

WOS Identifier

WOS:000325212800030

ISSN

0146-9592

Recommended Citation

"Interactions between self-channeled optical beams in soft-matter systems with artificial nonlinearities" (2013). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 3965.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/3965