TY - GEN
T1 - Optical vortices in nonlinear media
T2 - 2011 International Workshop on Nonlinear Photonics, NLP 2011
AU - Desyatnikov, Anton S.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A summary is presented of recent theoretical and experimental results on the dynamics of optical vortices embedded in laser beams propagating in self-focusing nonlinear media. I discuss the spiraling of vortices in nonlocal solitons and elliptic laser beams as well as the pitchfork topological reactions of vortices observed recently in experiments with vortex beams in nematic liquid crystals. Several examples of more exotic structures are presented, such as vortex links and knots, forming spontaneously and under the action of soliton internal modes.
AB - A summary is presented of recent theoretical and experimental results on the dynamics of optical vortices embedded in laser beams propagating in self-focusing nonlinear media. I discuss the spiraling of vortices in nonlocal solitons and elliptic laser beams as well as the pitchfork topological reactions of vortices observed recently in experiments with vortex beams in nematic liquid crystals. Several examples of more exotic structures are presented, such as vortex links and knots, forming spontaneously and under the action of soliton internal modes.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84855582596
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U2 - 10.1109/NLP.2011.6102652
DO - 10.1109/NLP.2011.6102652
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855582596
SN - 9781457704796
T3 - Workshop Proceedings - International Workshop on Nonlinear Photonics, NLP 2011
BT - Workshop Proceedings - International Workshop on Nonlinear Photonics, NLP 2011
Y2 - 6 September 2011 through 8 September 2011
ER -