Title :
Formation and interaction of self-guided optical beams in a pre-engineered soft-matter system
Author :
Fardad, Shima ; Mills, M.S. ; Peng Zhang ; Weining Man ; Zhigang Chen ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
Author_Institution :
CREOL/Coll. of Opt., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate stable beam self-trapping in soft-matter systems with artificial saturable self-focusing nonlinearities. Our experiments reveal optical beam interactions that can vary from attractive to repulsive as well as an energy exchange.
Keywords :
optical materials; optical saturable absorption; optical self-focusing; artificial saturable self-focusing nonlinearities; attractive interaction; energy exchange; pre-engineered soft-matter system; repulsive interaction; self-guided optical beam formation; self-guided optical beam interaction; stable beam self-trapping; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical solitons; Optical variables control;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
