Giant tunable self-defocusing nonlinearity and dark soliton attraction observed in m-cresol/nylon thermal solutions | Zendy

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Giant tunable self-defocusing nonlinearity and dark soliton attraction observed in m-cresol/nylon thermal solutions

Author(s) -

V.M. Smith,

Brian Leung,

Phillip Cala,

Zhigang Chen,

Weining Man

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

optical materials express

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925

H-Index - 66

ISSN - 2159-3930

DOI - 10.1364/ome.4.001807

Subject(s) - thermal , nonlinear system , soliton , isotropy , materials science , attraction , nylon 6 , optics , cresol , nonlinear optics , refractive index , physics , composite material , polymer , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , phenol , organic chemistry

We report a new type of thermal nonlinear media (m-cresol/nylon solutions) that exhibits a giant tunable self-defocusing nonlinearity. The measured Kerr coefficient in such thermal nonlinear solutions is orders of magnitude higher than that of most previously known thermal materials. In addition, we demonstrate the generation of dark spatial solitons in these isotropic nonlocal nonlinear media, and observe to our knowledge the strongest effect of dark-soliton attraction ever reported in thermal defocusing media.

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