TY - GEN
T1 - Spatial solitons carrying phase singularities in nematic liquid crystals
AU - Izdebskaya, Yana V.
AU - Desyatnikov, Anton S.
AU - Assanto, Gaetano
AU - Kivshar, Yuri
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - We demonstrate self-trapped laser beams carrying optical vortices in nematic liquid crystals. We experimentally observe astigmatic transformations of vortex beams into spiralling dipole azimuthons accompanied by a nontrivial power-dependent charge-flipping of on-axis phase dislocations.
AB - We demonstrate self-trapped laser beams carrying optical vortices in nematic liquid crystals. We experimentally observe astigmatic transformations of vortex beams into spiralling dipole azimuthons accompanied by a nontrivial power-dependent charge-flipping of on-axis phase dislocations.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893535991
SN - 9780977565771
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
SP - 444
EP - 445
BT - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim, CLEOPR 2011
T2 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim, CLEOPR 2011
Y2 - 28 August 2011 through 1 September 2011
ER -