Title :
Partially incoherent optical vortices in self-focusing nonlinear media
Author :
Jeng, Chien-Chung ; Shih, Ming-Feng ; Motzek, Kristian ; Kivshar, Yuri S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei
Abstract :
We predict theoretically and observe experimentally stable propagation of spatially localized single- and double-charge optical vortices created in a self-focusing nonlinear medium by self-trapping of partially incoherent light carrying a phase dislocation
Keywords :
optical self-focusing; optical vortices; radiation pressure; double-charge optical vortices; nonlinear media; partially incoherent light; partially incoherent optical vortices; phase dislocation; self-focusing media; self-trapping; spatially localized single-optical vortices; stable propagation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
