• DocumentCode
    1770341
  • Title

    Dark soliton attraction and optical spatial shock waves observed in m-cresol/nylon solutions

  • Author

    Smith, Valton ; Cala, Phillip ; Weining Man ; Zhigang Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the strongest effect of dark-soliton attraction in a new type of nonlocal thermal self-defocusing nonlinear media (m-cresol/nylon solutions). Formation of spatial shock waves is also observed with only mW power.
  • Keywords
    optical solitons; organic compounds; shock waves; thermo-optical effects; M-cresol-nylon solutions; dark-soliton attraction; nonlocal thermal self-defocusing nonlinear media; optical spatial shock waves; Dispersion; Laser beams; Materials; Nonlinear optics; Optical solitons; Shock waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988867