Observation of stable-vector vortex solitons
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2015
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Izdebskaya, Yana
Assanto, Gaetano
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
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Optical Society of America
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We report on the first experimental observation of stable-vector vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media with a reorientational response, such as nematic liquid crystals. These solitons consist of two co-polarized, mutually trapped beams of different colors, a bright fundamental spatial soliton, and a nonlinear optical vortex. The nonlinear vortex component, which is normally unstable in nonlinear media, is stabilized and confined here by the highly nonlocal refractive potential induced by the soliton.
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Optics Letters
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