Continuous-wave self-focusing and self-trapping of light in artificial Kerr media

A Ashkin, JM Dziedzic, PW Smith - Optics letters, 1982 - opg.optica.org
… of cw self-focusing and self-trapping of laser beams … self-trapping phenomenon. We
have observed the smallest-diameter cw self-trapped filaments yet reported and the first self-trapping

Self-trapping of light in a two-dimensional photonic lattice

ZH Musslimani, J Yang - JOSA B, 2004 - opg.optica.org
… Later on, self-trapping of light in discrete nonlinear waveguide … self-traps to form a localized
state (a soliton) in the center waveguides. Subsequently, many interesting properties of wave

Self-trapping of optical beams

RY Chiao, E Garmire, CH Townes - Physical review letters, 1964 - APS
… For normal dielectric materials, the constant n, is such that the critical power for trapping is …
of 10' watts for visible light, a power level commonly obtained in laser beams. For radio waves, …

Nonlinear optical response and self-trapping of light in biological suspensions

R Gautam, A Bezryadina, Y Xiang… - … in Physics: X, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… nanosuspensions, nonlinear self-trapping of light beams and their robust … self-trapping
effect experienced by light beams in turn allows for the deep penetration of long needles of light

Optical trapping dynamics of a single polystyrene sphere: continuous wave versus femtosecond lasers

TH Liu, WY Chiang, A Usman… - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
… is optical trapping which is a noninvasive and nondestructive technique utilizing a tightly
focused continuous wave (cw) near-infrared laser beam to locally induce a high gradient light

Light trapping in gravity-like potentials and expansion of supercontinuum spectra in photonic-crystal fibres

AV Gorbach, DV Skryabin - Nature Photonics, 2007 - nature.com
… 3a), in which case it cannot trap waves and so cannot lead to the formation of localized
non-dispersive light pulses as observed in experiments and modelling. What this potential can do…

Nonlinear self-trapping and guiding of light at different wavelengths with sheep blood

N Perez, J Chambers, Z Chen, A Bezryadina - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
… (NIR) light experiences a weaker nonlinear self-action and thus requires much higher power
to obtain self-trapping as compared to visible light. To examine the waveguiding of light at …

Self-Trapping of Extreme Light

VY Bychenkov, VF Kovalev - Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics, 2021 - Springer
… It should be noted that root dependence (21) of the radius of the cylindrical beam in the
selftrapping regime is preserved also in a more sophisticated model for S that allows for both the …

Nonlinear diffusion and beam self-trapping in diffraction-managed waveguide arrays

IL Garanovich, AA Sukhorukov, YS Kivshar - Optics Express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
… We start from the regime of self-collimation at low powers and … beam self-imaging and
leads to nonlinear diffusion. At higher powers, we observe a sharp transition to the self-trapping

Self-trapping light waves and quanta: Towards an explanation of wave-photon duality

AH Piekara - Optics & Laser Technology, 1982 - Elsevier
… Why is Planck's constant h valid for waves and particles of … -linear wave equation, and which
in turn yield the light selftrapping … and selftrapping quantitatively fits Planck's constant and …