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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
