Title
Interactions Between Self-Channeled Optical Beams In Soft-Matter Systems With Artificial Nonlinearities
Abstract
We demonstrate optical interactions between stable self-trapped optical beams in soft-matter systems with preengineered 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. © 2013 Optical Society of America.
Publication Date
9-15-2013
Publication Title
Optics Letters
Volume
38
Issue
18
Number of Pages
3585-3587
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.003585
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84884235178 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84884235178
STARS Citation
Fardad, Shima; Mills, Matthew S.; Zhang, Peng; Man, Weining; and Chen, Zhigang, "Interactions Between Self-Channeled Optical Beams In Soft-Matter Systems With Artificial Nonlinearities" (2013). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 6246.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/6246