Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Square vortex solitons with a large angular momentum.

Humberto Michinel1, José R Salgueiro, María J Paz-Alonso

  • 1Area de Optica, Facultade de Ciencias de Ourense, Universidade de Vigo, As Lagoas s/n, Ourense ES-32005, Spain.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|February 9, 2005
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Guided Vortex Bullets.

Physical review letters·2026
Same author

Fate of traveling waves at the boundary of quantum droplets.

Physical review. E·2025
Same author

Traveling bubbles and vortex pairs within symmetric two-dimensional quantum droplets.

Physical review. E·2025
Same author

Self-trapping of vortex crystals via competing nonlinearities.

Physical review. E·2024
Same author

Polygons of quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates with a circular trap.

Physical review. E·2023
Same author

Energy- and time-controlled switching of ultrashort pulses in nonlinear directional plasmonic couplers.

Optics letters·2022
Same journal

Tension on dsDNA bound to ssDNA-RecA filaments may play an important role in driving efficient and accurate homology recognition and strand exchange.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics·2016
Same journal

Publisher's Note: Amplitude-phase coupling drives chimera states in globally coupled laser networks [Phys. Rev. E 91, 040901(R) (2015)].

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics·2016
Same journal

Erratum: Shapes of sedimenting soft elastic capsules in a viscous fluid [Phys. Rev. E 92, 033003 (2015)].

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics·2016
Same journal

Erratum: Attenuation of excitation decay rate due to collective effect [Phys. Rev. E 90, 022142 (2014)].

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics·2016
Same journal

Publisher's Note: Role of connectivity and fluctuations in the nucleation of calcium waves in cardiac cells [Phys. Rev. E 92, 052715 (2015)].

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics·2016
Same journal

Publisher's Note: Lattice Boltzmann approach for complex nonequilibrium flows [Phys. Rev. E 92, 043308 (2015)].

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics·2016
See all related articles

Researchers discovered stable, square-shaped optical vortices in nonlinear media. These light structures, with high angular momentum, exhibit ring-like profiles and are stable for wide laser beams, supporting the "liquid of light" concept.

Area of Science:

  • Nonlinear optics
  • Laser physics
  • Optical phenomena

Background:

  • Optical vortices are beams of light with a helical phase front.
  • Nonlinear optical media alter light propagation based on intensity.
  • Cubic-quintic nonlinearity is a common model for such media.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the existence and stability of square-shaped optical vortices.
  • To explore the influence of finite-size laser beams and nonlinear media.
  • To analyze the role of angular momentum and beam parameters.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of light propagation in nonlinear media.
  • Numerical simulations to observe vortex formation and stability.
  • Variational approach to calculate key physical parameters.

Related Experiment Videos

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated the existence of stable, square-shaped optical vortices.
  • Observed ring-like light profiles with sharp boundaries and variable sizes.
  • Stability analysis indicated robustness for high angular momentum in wide beams.

Conclusions:

  • Square-shaped optical vortices are stable under specific conditions in nonlinear media.
  • Results support the concept of