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Nature Photonics 2, 334 - 335 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.89
Solitons: Self-trapping of speckled light beams
Antonio Picozzi1
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Antonio Picozzi is at the Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
e-mail: Antonio.Picozzi@u-bourgogne.fr
Abstract
A speckle beam of light breaks up into small fragments as it propagates in a standard self-focusing nonlinear material. Now, by exploiting the non-local thermal response of a material, it is possible to trap a speckle beam in a self-induced waveguide.
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