Autofocusing of cylindrical caustics self-generated in a defocusing nonlinear medium

M. Karpov; Y. Sivan; V. Fleurov; T. Congy; N. Pavloff; S. Bar-Ad

doi:10.1364/NLO.2015.NF2A.3

Nonlinear Optics
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2015),
paper NF2A.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2015.NF2A.3

Autofocusing of cylindrical caustics self-generated in a defocusing nonlinear medium

M. Karpov, Y. Sivan, V. Fleurov, T. Congy, N. Pavloff, and S. Bar-Ad

Nonlinear Optics 2015

Kauai, Hawaii United States
26–31 July 2015
ISBN: 978-1-55752-001-2

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M. Karpov, Y. Sivan, V. Fleurov, T. Congy, N. Pavloff, and S. Bar-Ad, "Autofocusing of cylindrical caustics self-generated in a defocusing nonlinear medium," in Nonlinear Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2015), paper NF2A.3.

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Abstract

We describe a simple method for generating an autofocusing, radially-symmetric Airy wave, relying on optical caustics which form in a defocusing, nonlocal thermal nonlinear medium with a cylindrical reflective boundary.

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