Title :
Optical beams and spatial solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media
Author :
Krolikowski, Wieslaw ; Nikolov, Nikola I. ; Bang, Ole ; Neshev, D. ; Wyller, John ; Rasmussen, Jens Juul ; Edmundson, Darran
Author_Institution :
CUDOS, Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT
Abstract :
We study theoretically properties of optical beams and spatial solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media. We demonstrate variety of nonlocality-mediated effects including stabilization of vortex beams and long-range attraction of dark solitons
Keywords :
nonlinear media; optical self-focusing; optical solitons; optical vortices; Kerr medium; dark solitons; long-range attraction; nonlinear media; nonlocal media; nonlocality-mediated effects; optical beams; self-focusing medium; spatial solitons; vortex beam stabilization;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-778-4
