Superpositions of Laguerre-Gaussian Beams in Strongly Nonlocal Left-handed Materials Academic Article

abstract

• We present beam solutions of the strongly nonlocal nonlinear Schrdinger equation in left-handed materials (LHMs). Different Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) necklace beams, such as symmetric and asymmetric single layer and multilayer necklace beams are created by the superposition of two single beams with different topological charges. Such superpositions are then propagated through LHMs, displaying linear diffraction. It is found that the superposition of two LGnm beams with opposite topological charges does not show rotational behavior and that there exists rotation for other topological charge combinations. Our theory predicts that the accessible solitons cannot exist in LHMs. 2010 Chinese Physical Society and IOP Publishing Ltd.

authors

• Belic, Milivoj
• Huang, Tingwen

published proceedings

• COMMUNICATIONS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

• Zhong, W., Belic, M., Huang, T., & Wang, L.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Wei-Ping, Zhong||Belić, Milivoj||Ting-Wen, Huang||Li-Yang, Wang

publication date

• April 2010

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Communications in Theoretical Physics  Journal

keywords

• Laguerre-gausssian Beam
• Left-handed Material
• The Strongly Nonlocal Nonlinear

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/0253-6102/53/4/30

start page

• 749

end page

• 754

volume

• 53

issue

• 4