• DocumentCode
    2881844
  • Title

    Self-trapping of charge-2 vortices in optically induced photonic lattices

  • Author

    Bezryadina, Anna ; Eugenieva, Eugenia ; Fors, Anita ; Xu, Jingjun ; Chen, Zhigang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We study charge-2 vortices in photonic lattices induced by partially-coherent light. In linear lattices both on-site and off-site excitations lead to quasi-vortex (quadrupole-like) solitons. Nonlinear lattices are twisted by vortex depending on nonlinearity and coherence.
  • Keywords
    light coherence; optical lattices; optical solitons; self-focusing; charge-2 vortices; nonlinear lattices; optical coherence; optically induced photonic lattices; partially-coherent light; quadrupole-like solitons; quasivortex solitons; self-trapping; Astronomy; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Numerical simulation; Optical propagation; Optical solitons; Optical vortices; Optical waveguides; Physics; Polarization; (190.4420) Nonlinear optics, transverse effects in; (250.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628874
  • Filename
    4628874