Title :
Spiral optical domain walls and rotating topological solitons in active optical cavity
Author :
Iaparov, V.V. ; Taranenko, V.B.
Author_Institution :
Int. Center, “Inst. of Appl. Opt.”, Ukraine
Abstract :
We show numerically that active optical cavity with mixed parametric and laser gain can support formation of extended spiral optical domain walls and new type of cavity solitons whose topological structure is similar to that of Néel defect in ferromagnetics and liquid crystals.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; optical rotation; optical solitons; active optical cavity; cavity solitons; laser gain; mixed parametric gain; rotating topological solitons; spiral optical domain walls; topological structure; Cavity resonators; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical resonators; Optical solitons; Optical vortices;
Conference_Titel :
Nonlinear Photonics (NLP), 2011 International Workshop
Conference_Location :
Kharkov
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0477-2
DOI :
10.1109/NLP.2011.6102647