Developing a complete vectorial description of optical nonparaxial propagation of highly focused beams in Kerr media, we disclose a family of new phenomena. These phenomena appear to emerge as a consequence of the mutual coupling of all three components of the optical field. This circumstance, which is intrinsic to the very nature of Kerr propagation, was previously discarded on the basis of the conjecture that a reduced system is possible in which only one transverse field component interacts with the longitudinal component.

Polarization and energy dynamics in ultrafocused optical Kerr propagation / Ciattoni, A; Conti, Claudio; DI PORTO, P; Crosignani, B; Yariv, A.; DEL RE, Eugenio. - In: OPTICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0146-9592. - STAMPA. - 27:9(2002), pp. 734-736. [10.1364/OL.27.000734]

Polarization and energy dynamics in ultrafocused optical Kerr propagation

CONTI, CLAUDIO;DEL RE, EUGENIO
2002

Abstract

Developing a complete vectorial description of optical nonparaxial propagation of highly focused beams in Kerr media, we disclose a family of new phenomena. These phenomena appear to emerge as a consequence of the mutual coupling of all three components of the optical field. This circumstance, which is intrinsic to the very nature of Kerr propagation, was previously discarded on the basis of the conjecture that a reduced system is possible in which only one transverse field component interacts with the longitudinal component.
2002
Nonparaxial optical propagation; spatial solitons; Kerr effect
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Polarization and energy dynamics in ultrafocused optical Kerr propagation / Ciattoni, A; Conti, Claudio; DI PORTO, P; Crosignani, B; Yariv, A.; DEL RE, Eugenio. - In: OPTICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0146-9592. - STAMPA. - 27:9(2002), pp. 734-736. [10.1364/OL.27.000734]
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