Towards the experimental observation of turbulent regimes and the associated energy cascades with paraxial fluids of light

TD Ferreira, V Rocha, D Silva, A Guerreiro… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The propagation of light in nonlinear optical media has been widely used as a tabletop
platform for emulating quantum-like phenomena due to their similar theoretical description to …

Exploring the dynamics of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in paraxial fluids of light

TD Ferreira, J Garwoła, NA Silva - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Paraxial fluids of light have recently emerged as promising analog physical simulators of
quantum fluids using laser propagation inside nonlinear optical media. In particular, recent …

Superdiffusion of vortices in two-component quantum fluids of light

M Roldão, JL Figueiredo, P Monteiro… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The quantum diffusion of a vortex in a two-component quantum fluid of light is investigated.
In these systems, the Kerr nonlinearity promotes interactions between the photons …

Exploring new phenomena in analogue physical simulations through an optical feedback loop in paraxial light fluids

TD Ferreira, A Guerreiro… - Nonlinear Optics and its …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Exploring optical analogues with paraxial fluids of light has been a subject of great interest
over the past years. Despite many optical analogues having been created and explored with …

Superfluid effects in defocusing nematic liquid crystals

TD Ferreira, NA Silva… - Nonlinear Optics and …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The last years saw the emergence of nonlinear optical materials, with local and nonlocal
nonlinearities, as experimentally accessible systems to implement optical analogues of …