INTERPLAY OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN THE FORMATION OF OPTICAL VORTICES IN A NONLINEAR RESONATOR

被引:15
作者
LIPPI, GL [1 ]
ACKEMANN, T [1 ]
HOFFER, LM [1 ]
GAHL, A [1 ]
LANGE, W [1 ]
机构
[1] WESTFAL WILHELMS UNIV MUNSTER, INST ANGEW PHYS, D-48149 MUNSTER, GERMANY
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1993年 / 48卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.48.R4043
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We study the role played by nonlinearities in the formation of optical vortices when the boundary conditions determine the pattern formation in a Fabry-Perot resonator. Particular care is taken to avoid trivial vortices coming from particular Gaussian modes or from the cavity alignment. We show that, while the existence of optical vortices is a generic linear property of the superpositions of Gaussian modes, their actual appearance in the transmitted patterns is controlled by the nonlinearity itself.
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页码:R4043 / R4046
页数:4
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