Observation of light localization in modulated Bessel optical lattices. Academic Article

abstract

• We generate higher-order azimuthally modulated Bessel optical lattices in photorefractive crystals by employing a phase-imprinting technique. We report on the experimental observation of self-trapping and nonlinear localization of light in such segmented lattices in the form of ring-shaped and single-site states. The experimental results agree well with numerical simulations accounting for an anisotropic and spatially nonlocal nonlinear response of photorefractive crystals.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Opt Express

author list (cited authors)

• Fischer, R., Neshev, D. N., Lopez-Aguayo, S., Desyatnikov, A. S., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 33

complete list of authors

• Fischer, Robert||Neshev, Dragomir N||Lopez-Aguayo, Servando||Desyatnikov, Anton S||Sukhorukov, Andrey A||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• April 2006

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Express  Journal

keywords

• 0205 Optical Physics

PubMed Central ID

• 19516418

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/oe.14.002825

start page

• 2825

end page

• 2830

volume

• 14

issue

• 7