Title :
Spatial Solitons and Instability in Nanosphere Suspensions
Author :
Gordon, R. ; Blakely, J.T. ; Sinton, D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Abstract :
Self-waveguiding of light through a nanosphere suspension is studied. The steady-state solution depends only on the beam power and not the beam-shape. It is shown that higher-order nonlinearities lead to instability for intensities beyond a critical value.
Keywords :
optical self-focusing; optical solitons; optical waveguides; suspensions; beam power; beam shape; nanosphere suspensions; nonlinear optical self-waveguiding; optical instability; self-induced optical waveguides; spatial solitons; Dielectric liquids; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical solitons; Optical variables control; Refractive index; Steady-state; Suspensions;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim, 2007. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1173-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1174-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2007.4391257
