Optical vortices and vortex solitons
By Yuri Kivshar. SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2004
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Optical vortices are phase singularities in electromagnetic waves that constitute a unique and fascinating class of phenomena within the context of the physics of light. We present a brief overview of the recent advances in the study of optical vortices propagating in nonlinear media. We demonstrate that self-focusing nonlinearity leads, in general, to the azimuthal instability of a vortex-carrying beam, but it can support novel types of stable (or quasi-stable) self-trapped beams carrying nonzero angular momentum, such as vortex solitons, necklace beams, and soliton clusters. We also describe the properties of the discrete vortex solitons in periodic photonic lattices.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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