DECAY OF HIGH-ORDER OPTICAL VORTICES IN ANISOTROPIC NONLINEAR-OPTICALMEDIA

Authors
MAMAEV AV SAFFMAN M ZOZULYA AA
Citation
Av. Mamaev et al., DECAY OF HIGH-ORDER OPTICAL VORTICES IN ANISOTROPIC NONLINEAR-OPTICALMEDIA, Physical review letters, 78(11), 1997, pp. 2108-2111
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
78
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2108 - 2111
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)78:11<2108:DOHOVI>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
We present an experimental and theoretical study of the decay of high order optical vortices in media with an anisotropic nonlocal nonlinear ity. Vortices with charge n decay into an aligned array of n vortices of unit charge.