Observation of polychromatic vortex solitons. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We demonstrate experimentally the formation of polychromatic single- and double-charge optical vortex solitons by employing a lithium niobate crystal as a nonlinear medium with defocusing nonlinearity. We study the wavelength dependence of the vortex core localization and observe self-trapping of polychromatic vortices with a bandwidth spanning over more than 70 nm for single-charge and 180 nm for double-charge vortex solitons.

published proceedings

  • Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Neshev, D. N., Dreischuh, A., Shvedov, V., Desyatnikov, A. S., Krolikowski, W., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

  • 15

complete list of authors

  • Neshev, Dragomir N||Dreischuh, Alexander||Shvedov, Vladlen||Desyatnikov, Anton S||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

  • August 2008