Optical Vortices and Vortex Solitons
| dc.creator | Desyatnikov, Anton S. | |
| dc.creator | Torner, Lluis | |
| dc.creator | Kivshar, Yuri S. | |
| dc.date | 2005-01-12 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T05:36:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T05:36:13Z | |
| dc.description | Optical vortices are phase singularities nested in electromagnetic waves that constitute a fascinating source of phenomena in the physics of light and display deep similarities to their close relatives, quantized vortices in superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates. We present a brief overview of the major advances in the study of optical vortices in different types of nonlinear media, with emphasis on the properties of {\em vortex solitons}. Self-focusing nonlinearity leads, in general, to the azimuthal instability of a vortex-carrying beam, but it can also support novel types of stable or meta-stable self-trapped beams carrying nonzero angular momentum, such as ring-like solitons, necklace beams, and soliton clusters. We describe vortex solitons created by multi-component beams, by parametrically coupled beams in quadratic nonlinear media, and in partially incoherent light, as well as discrete vortex solitons in periodic photonic lattices. | |
| dc.description | 63 pages, 26 figures, submitted to Progress in Optics, ed. E. Wolf | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0501026 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0501026 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/80920 | |
| dc.subject | Pattern Formation and Solitons | |
| dc.title | Optical Vortices and Vortex Solitons | |
| dc.type | text |