Light Confinement with Structured Beams in Gold Nanoparticle Suspensions.

Autor: Balbuena Ortega, Argelia, Torres-González, Felix E., López Gayou, Valentin, Delgado Macuil, Raul, Assanto, Gaetano, Volke-Sepulveda, Karen
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Zdroj: Photonics; Jun2021, Vol. 8 Issue 6, p221, 1p
Abstrakt: We carry out an experimental campaign to investigate the nonlinear self-defocusing propagation of singular light beams with various complex structures of phase and intensity in a colloidal suspension of gold nanoparticles with a plasmonic resonance near the laser wavelength (532nm). Studying optical vortices embedded in Gaussian beams, Bessel vortices and Bessel-cosine (necklace) beams, we gather evidence that while intense vortices turn into two-dimensional dark solitons, all structured wavepackets are able to guide a weak Gaussian probe of different wavelength (632.8 nm) along the dark core. The probe confinement also depends on the topological charge of the singular pump. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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