Observation of azimuthal modulational instability and formation of patterns of optical solitons in a quadratic nonlinear crystal
- 15 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 23 (18), 1444-1446
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.23.001444
Abstract
We report what is believed to be the first experimental demonstration of the azimuthal self-breaking of intense beams containing a vortex phase dislocation into sets of optical spatial solitons in a quadratic nonlinear material. The observations were performed in a KTP crystal.Keywords
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