• DocumentCode
    3186082
  • Title

    Polarization structure of nonparaxial spatial solitons- "optical needles" in media with different mechanisms of self-focusing nonlinearity

  • Author

    Rosanov, Nikolay N. ; Semenov, Victor E. ; Vyssot, Nina V.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. for Laser Phys., St. Petersburg, Russia
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    113
  • Abstract
    This report investigates, both semianalytically and numerically, nonparaxial transversely two-dimensional spatial solitons for an arbitrary mechanism of the medium Kerr nonlinearity when the phenomenon of rotation of the polarization ellipse takes place. Numerically, the nonlinear propagation of laser radiation in the form of a fairly long pulse and a narrow beam has been studied. The effective self-focusing and formation of optical needles occur in the centre of the pulse. The field longitudinal component is especially large in the case of orientation mechanism of self-focusing.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; light polarisation; optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; Kerr nonlinearity; nonparaxial spatial solitons; optical needles; polarization ellipse rotation; polarization structure; self-focusing nonlinearity; Laplace equations; Laser beams; Laser stability; Laser theory; Needles; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Propagation constant;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7733-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2003.1313970
  • Filename
    1313970