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View SchemaExperimental Observation of Modulation Instability and Optical Spatial Soliton Arrays in Soft Condensed Matter
| Authors | P. J. Reece, E. M. Wright, K. Dholakia |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0701252 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701252 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.203902 |
Abstract
In this Letter we report observations of optically induced self-organization of colloidal arrays in the presence of un-patterned counter-propagating evanescent waves. The colloidal arrays formed along the laser propagation-axis are shown to be linked to the break-up of the incident field into optical spatial solitons, the lateral spacing of the arrays being related to modulation instability of the soft condensed matter system.
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