Observation of optical spatial solitons in a highly nonlocal medium

被引：521

作者：

Conti, C ^{[1
]}

Peccianti, M ^{[1
]}

Assanto, G ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Roma Tre, INFM, Natl Inst Phys Matter, Nonlinear Opt & OptoElect Lab, I-00146 Rome, Italy

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2004年 / 92卷 / 11期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.113902

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We report on the observation and quantitative assessment of self-trapped pulsating beams in a highly nonlocal nonlinear regime. The experiments were conducted in nematic liquid crystals and allow a meaningful comparison with the prediction of a scalar theory in the perturbative limit, while addressing the need for beyond-paraxial analytical treatments.

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