Nonlinear Aharonov-Bohm scattering by optical vortices

Details Nonlinear Aharonov-Bohm scattering by optical vortices Nonlinear Aharonov-Bohm scattering by optical vortices

2001-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0107005v1

published PRL 87, issue 4, electronic identifier 043901

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.043901

We study linear and nonlinear wave scattering by an optical vortex in a self-defocusing nonlinear Kerr medium. In the linear case, we find a splitting of a plane-wave front at the vortex proportional to its circulation, similar to what occurs in the scattered wave of electrons for the Aharonov-Bohm effect. For larger wave amplitudes, we study analytically and numerically the scattering of a dark-soliton stripe (a nonlinear analog of a small-amplitude wavepacket) by a vortex and observe a significant asymmetry of the scattered wave. Subsequently, a wavefront splitting of the scattered wave develops into transverse modulational instability, ``unzipping'' the stripe into trains of vortices with opposite charges.

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