We demonstrate stable beam self-trapping in soft-matter systems with artificial saturable self-focusing nonlinearities. Our experiments reveal optical beam interactions that can vary from attractive to repulsive as well as an energy exchange. © 2013 The Optical Society
We present simulations of the self-focusing effect in nonlinear media for cw and pulsed input. Altho...
We demonstrate self-trapping of light in both high-index and low-index nonlinear nano-suspensions. I...
We report the first observation of robust self-trapping of vortex beams propagating in a uniform con...
We demonstrate stable beam self-trapping in soft-matter systems with artificial saturable self-focus...
We demonstrate optical interactions between stable self-trapped optical beams in soft-matter systems...
We demonstrate optical interactions between stable self-trapped optical beams in soft-matter systems...
We synthesize colloidal nanosuspensions with negative polarizabilities and observe self-enhanced tra...
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in nonlinear optical media, exhibiting self-focusing...
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and satura...
Beams of light, prevented from diverging by nonlinear media, exhibit particle-like behavior, as do w...
We demonstrate a new class of synthetic colloidal suspensions capable of exhibiting negative polariz...
In the past decade, the development of artificial materials exhibiting novel optical properties has ...
We demonstrate a new class of synthetic colloidal suspensions capable of exhibiting negative polariz...
We present simulations of the self-focusing effect in nonlinear media for cw and pulsed input. Altho...
We demonstrate self-trapping of light in both high-index and low-index nonlinear nano-suspensions. I...
We report the first observation of robust self-trapping of vortex beams propagating in a uniform con...
We demonstrate stable beam self-trapping in soft-matter systems with artificial saturable self-focus...
We demonstrate optical interactions between stable self-trapped optical beams in soft-matter systems...
We demonstrate optical interactions between stable self-trapped optical beams in soft-matter systems...
We synthesize colloidal nanosuspensions with negative polarizabilities and observe self-enhanced tra...
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in nonlinear optical media, exhibiting self-focusing...
We present self-accelerating self-trapped beams in self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr and satura...
Beams of light, prevented from diverging by nonlinear media, exhibit particle-like behavior, as do w...
We demonstrate a new class of synthetic colloidal suspensions capable of exhibiting negative polariz...
In the past decade, the development of artificial materials exhibiting novel optical properties has ...
We demonstrate a new class of synthetic colloidal suspensions capable of exhibiting negative polariz...
We present simulations of the self-focusing effect in nonlinear media for cw and pulsed input. Altho...
We demonstrate self-trapping of light in both high-index and low-index nonlinear nano-suspensions. I...
We report the first observation of robust self-trapping of vortex beams propagating in a uniform con...