Abstract
We present an experimental and theoretical study of the decay of high order optical vortices in media with an anisotropic nonlocal nonlinearity. Vortices with charge n decay into an aligned array of n vortices of unit charge.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 78 |
Issue number | 11 |
Pages (from-to) | 2108-2111 |
ISSN | 0031-9007 |
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Publication status | Published - 1997 |