Mcdonald, GS ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5182, Syed, KS and Firth, WJ
1992,
'Optical vortices in beam propagation through a self-defocussing medium'
, Optics Communications, 94 (5)
, pp. 469-476.
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Abstract
We present numerical simulations and analysis of optical vortex propagation in a 3D self-defocussing medium. On plane wave background initial conditions composed of points and lines of phase discontinuity are shown, in some cases, to evolve towards a regular crystal of fully nonlinear vortices. In other cases the solution more resembles a vortex gas. For gaussian beams, we have derived a simple set of ordinary differential equations which are shown to accurately describe the motion of a single vortex while the background beam undergoes significant spreading.
Item Type: | Article |
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Themes: | Energy Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy Subjects outside of the University Themes |
Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre |
Journal or Publication Title: | Optics Communications |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
ISSN: | 0030-4018 |
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Depositing User: | GS McDonald |
Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2011 11:32 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2022 16:08 |
URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/18354 |
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