Spontaneous knotting of self-trapped waves

Desyatnikov, Anton S; Buccoliero, Daniel; Dennis, Mark R; Kivshar, Yuri

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Spontaneous knotting of self-trapped waves

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2012

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Desyatnikov, Anton S

Buccoliero, Daniel

Dennis, Mark R

Kivshar, Yuri

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Nature Publishing Group

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We describe theory and simulations of a spinning optical soliton whose propagation spontaneously excites knotted and linked optical vortices. The nonlinear phase of the self-trapped light beam breaks the wave front into a sequence of optical vortex loops

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68668

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Scientific Reports

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10.1038/srep00771

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