Publication Date:
2013-06-07
Description:
Author(s): Mohamed El Ketara and Etienne Brasselet We report on the observation of self-induced precession of an optical vortex as a result of the nonlinear interaction between light and liquid crystals. The phenomenon corresponds to an instability for the spin-orbit interaction of light that manifests as a spontaneous axial symmetry breaking, which... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 233603] Published Thu Jun 06, 2013
Keywords:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics
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