Stationary and stable light beam propagation in Kerr media with nonlinear absorption with controllable dissipation patterns
Optics
2017-04-19 v1
Abstract
We report on the stationary and robust propagation of light beams with rather arbitrary and controllable intensity and dissipation transverse patterns in self-focusing Kerr media with nonlinear absorption. When nonlinear absorption is due to multi-photon ionization at high beam powers in transparent media such as glasses or air, these beams can generate multiple plasma channels with tailored geometries. Their nature and spatial characteristics are discussed in detail, as well as the laws determining their spontaneous formation from coherent superpositions of Bessel beams of different amplitudes and topological charges.
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@article{arxiv.1703.01948,
title = {Stationary and stable light beam propagation in Kerr media with nonlinear absorption with controllable dissipation patterns},
author = {Miguel A. Porras and Carlos Ruiz-Jiménez and Márcio Carvalho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01948},
year = {2017}
}