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14 April 2000 Optical vortex solitons: generation, dynamics, and instabilities
Yuri S. Kivshar, Vladimir Tikhonenko, Jason Christou, Barry Luther-Davies
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Abstract
We analyze the properties of vortex solitons generated in Kerr and non-Kerr nonlinear optical media, including the vortex drift and rotation in a diffracting Gaussian beam. We also present our recent analytical and experimentally results on the vortex-induced break-up of a dark-soliton stripe, and discuss a connection of this phenomenon with the well-known Aharonov-Bohm effect in solids.
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Yuri S. Kivshar, Vladimir Tikhonenko, Jason Christou, and Barry Luther-Davies "Optical vortex solitons: generation, dynamics, and instabilities", Proc. SPIE 3927, Optical Pulse and Beam Propagation II, (14 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.382061
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KEYWORDS
Solitons

Optical vortices

Spiral phase plates

Gaussian beams

Beam propagation method

Nonlinear optics

Wave propagation

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