Observation of optical spatial solitons in a highly nonlocal medium
Optics
2009-11-10 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We report on the observation and quantitative assessment of self-trapped pulsating beams in a highly non-local 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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@article{arxiv.physics/0403032,
title = {Observation of optical spatial solitons in a highly nonlocal medium},
author = {Claudio Conti and Marco Peccianti and Gaetano Assanto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0403032},
year = {2009}
}
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16 pages, 3 figures