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Nonlocal Stabilization of Nonlinear Beams in a Self-focusing Atomic Vapor

Date

Authors

Skupin, Stephan

Saffman, Mark

Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

We show that ballistic transport of optically excited atoms in an atomic vapor provides a nonlocal nonlinearity which stabilizes the propagation of vortex beams and higher order modes in the presence of a self-focusing nonlinearity. Numerical experiments

Keywords

Keywords: Diffraction; Focusing; Light propagation; Nonlinear optics; Vapors; Atomic vapor; Ballistic transport; Diffraction lengths; Atomic beams

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/37506

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Physical Review Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.263902

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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