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
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