Vortex soliton motion and steering
Authors:
- Jason ChristouJCJason Christou
- Vladimir TikhonenkoVTVladimir Tikhonenko
- Yuri S. KivsharYKYuri S. Kivshar
- Barry Luther-DaviesBLBarry Luther-Davies
- 15 October 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 21 (20) , 1649-1651
Abstract
Experimental demonstration of the steering of an optical vortex soliton by the superposition of a weak coherent background field is presented. A model to account for vortex motion is derived, and its validity is verified experimentally and numerically.Keywords
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