Ring surface waves in thermal nonlinear media

Details Ring surface waves in thermal nonlinear media Ring surface waves in thermal nonlinear media

2007-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/0711.1968v1

Optics Express 15, 16216 (2007)

Physics

Optics

6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Optics Express

Scientific paper

10.1364/OE.15.016216

We address ring-shaped surface waves supported by defocusing thermal media with circular cross-section. Such waves exist because of the balance between repulsion from the interface and deflection of light from the bulk medium due to defocusing nonlocal nonlinearity. The properties of such surface waves are determined by the geometry of the sample. Nodeless ring surface waves are stable for all values of their winding number, while surface waves with a small number of azimuthal nodes can be metastable.

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