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Interactions between self-channeled optical beams in soft-matter systems with artificial nonlinearities

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: We demonstrate optical interactions between stable self-trapped optical beams in soft-matter systems with pre-engineered saturable self-focusing optical nonlinearities. Our experiments, carried out in dilute suspensions of particles with negative polarizabilities, show that optical beam interactions can vary from attractive to repulsive, or can display an energy exchange depending on the initial relative phases. The corresponding observations are in good agreement with theoretical predictions.

Source: Optics Letters

DOI: 10.1364/ol.38.003585

Authors: Shima Fardad, Matthew S. Mills, Peng Zhang, Weining Man, Zhigang Chen, D. N. Christodoulides

Institutions: University of Central Florida, San Francisco State University

Language: English

Topic: Nonlinear Photonic Systems

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Awards: G2318466067, G4598147267