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Observation of optical spatial solitons in a highly nonlocal medium

Claudio Conti, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto

physics.opticsarXiv:physics/0403032

Abstract

We report on the observation and quantitative assessment of self-trapped pulsating beams in a highly non-local nonlinear regime. The experiments were conducted in nematic liquid crystals and allow a meaningful comparison with the prediction of a scalar theory in the perturbative limit, while addressing the need for beyond-paraxial analytical treatments.

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