Experimental observation of modulation instability and optical spatial soliton arrays in soft condensed matter

P. J. Reece; E. M. Wright; K. Dholakia

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.203902

Experimental observation of modulation instability and optical spatial soliton arrays in soft condensed matter

P. J. Reece, E. M. Wright, K. Dholakia

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In this Letter we report observations of optically induced self-organization of colloidal arrays in the presence of unpatterned counterpropagating evanescent waves. The colloidal arrays formed along the laser propagation axis are shown to be linked to the breakup of the incident field into optical spatial solitons, the lateral spacing of the arrays being related to modulation instability of the soft condensed matter system.

Original language	English
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	98
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.203902
Publication status	Published - 18 May 2007

Keywords

ARTIFICIAL KERR MEDIUM
LIGHT-BEAMS
WAVE-GUIDE
SUSPENSION
PARTICLES

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Experimental observation of modulation instability and optical spatial soliton arrays in soft condensed matter

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