Magnetooptical control of light collapse in bulk Kerr media

Details Magnetooptical control of light collapse in bulk Kerr media Magnetooptical control of light collapse in bulk Kerr media

2009-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/0903.0373v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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Magneto-optical crystals allow an efficient control of the birefringence of light via the Cotton-Mouton and Faraday effects. These effects enable a unique combination of adjustable linear and circular birefringence, which, in turn, can affect the propagation of light in nonlinear Kerr media. We show numerically that the combined birefringences can accelerate, delay, or arrest the nonlinear collapse of (2+1)D beams, and report an experimental observation of the acceleration of the onset of collapse in a bulk Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) crystal in an external magnetic field.

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