Gaussian lenses initiate optical vortices in laser beams during self-action in Kerr-like medium

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 737-744

  Kreminskaya, L V ^a   Soskin, M S ^a   Khizhnyak, A I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GAUSSIAN LENSES; KERR LIKE MEDIUM; OPTICAL VORTICES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0033115803     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00023-X     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Nye, J. F., Berry, M. V., Dislocations in wave trains. Proc. Roy. Soc. London A, 1974, 336, 165-190.
2. Ilyenkov, A. V., Kreminskaya, L. V., Soskin, M. S., Vasnetsov, M. V., Birth, evolution and annihilation of phase singularities in laser beam passed through a self-defocusing strontium barium niobate crystal. J. of Nonlinear Optical Phys. & Materials, 1997, 6, 169-180.
3. Ilyenkov, A. V., Khizhnyak, A. I., Kreminskaya, L. V., Soskin, M. S., Vasnetsov, M. V., Birth and evolution of wavefront dislocations in a laser beam passed through photorefractive LiNbO3:Fe crystal. Applied Physics B, 1996, 62, 465-472.
4. Kravtsov, Ju. A., Orlov, J. I., Geometrical Optics of Inhomogeneous Media. Nauka, Moscow, 1980 (in Russian). Arnold, V.I., Catastrophy Theory. Springer, Berlin,1983.
5. Kravtsov, Ju. A., Orlov, J. I., Geometrical Optics of Inhomogeneous Media. Nauka, Moscow, 1980 (in Russian). Arnold, V.I., Catastrophy Theory. Springer, Berlin,1983.
6. Ackemann, T., Kriege, E., Lange, W., Phase singularities via nonlinear beam propagation in sodium vapor. Optics Commun, 1995, 115, 339-346.
7. Cipparrone, G., Duca, D., and Tabiryan, N. V., Catastrophes and nonlinear dynamics in the standard geometry of optically induced reorientation of nematic liquid crystals, Optics Commun., 140, 266-273, 1997. Schreiber, A., Thuring, B., Kreuzer, M., Tschudi, T., Experimental investigation of solitary structures in a nonlinear optical feedback system, Optics Commun.,136, 415-418, 1996.
8. Cipparrone, G., Duca, D., and Tabiryan, N. V., Catastrophes and nonlinear dynamics in the standard geometry of optically induced reorientation of nematic liquid crystals, Optics Commun., 140, 266-273, 1997. Schreiber, A., Thuring, B., Kreuzer, M., Tschudi, T., Experimental investigation of solitary structures in a nonlinear optical feedback system, Optics Commun.,136, 415-418, 1996.
9. Altshuler, G. B., Borshch, A. A., Brodin, M. S., Dynamics of the self-action of picosecond lightpulses in cadmium sulfide semiconductors. J. of Quant. El., 1987, 14, 2518-2523.
10. Kreminskaya, L. V., Basistiy, I. V., Ilyenkov, A. V., Marienko, I. G., Soskin, M. S., Vasnetsov, M.V., Khizhnyak, A. I., The model of Gaussian lens describing genesis of optical singularities in laserbeams transmitted through natural and synthesized objects: theory and experiment. Proc. of 1997 Topical Meeting on Photorefractive Materials, Effects and Devices. Chiba, Japan. June 11-13,121-124. 1997.
11. Berry, M. V., Disruption of wavefronts: statistics of dislocations in incoherent Gaussian random waves. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 1978, 11, 27-37.