Observation of polychromatic vortex solitons

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

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    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1851-1853
    Number of pages3
    JournalOptics Letters
    Volume33
    Issue number16
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Aug 2008

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