• DocumentCode
    2226029
  • Title

    Experimental observation of ring dark spatial solitons

  • Author

    Delgado Macuil, R.J. ; Chavez Cerda, S. ; Iturbe Castillo, M.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Opt. y Electron., Puebla, Mexico
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    19-24 May 2002
  • Firstpage
    142
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. In this paper we show experimentally that ring dark solitons can be generated using a phase disk or an opaque ring. The nonlinear material was a solution of methylene blue in isopropyl alcohol with an optical density of 18 for a wavelength 514 /spl mu/m.
  • Keywords
    dyes; optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; Kerr nonlinearity; isopropyl alcohol; methylene blue solution; nonlinear material; opaque ring; phase disk; ring dark spatial solitons; Optical Kerr effect; Optical solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2002. QELS '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-708-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2002.1031222
  • Filename
    1031222