Ring surface waves in thermal nonlinear media
Optics
2009-11-13 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We address ring-shaped surface waves supported by defocusing thermal media with circular cross-section. Such waves exist because of the balance between repulsion from the interface and deflection of light from the bulk medium due to defocusing nonlocal nonlinearity. The properties of such surface waves are determined by the geometry of the sample. Nodeless ring surface waves are stable for all values of their winding number, while surface waves with a small number of azimuthal nodes can be metastable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.1968,
title = {Ring surface waves in thermal nonlinear media},
author = {Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor A. Vysloukh and Lluis Torner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.1968},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Optics Express