Vortex stabilization by means of spatial solitons in nonlocal media

Yana Izdebskaya; Wieslaw Krolikowski; Noel F. Smyth; Gaetano Assanto

doi:10.1088/2040-8978/18/5/054006

Vortex stabilization by means of spatial solitons in nonlocal media

Yana Izdebskaya, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Noel F. Smyth, Gaetano Assanto

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We investigate how optical vortices, which tend to be azimuthally unstable in local nonlinear materials, can be stabilized by a copropagating coaxial spatial solitary wave in nonlocal, nonlinear media. We focus on the formation of nonlinear vortex-soliton vector beams in reorientational soft matter, namely nematic liquid crystals, and report on experimental results, as well as numerical simulations.

Original language	English
Article number	054006
Journal	Journal of Optics
Volume	18
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/18/5/054006
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2016
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

liquid crystals
optical vortex
self-action effects
spatial solitons

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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