Light Confinement with Structured Beams in Gold Nanoparticle Suspensions

Autor: Argelia Balbuena Ortega, Felix E. Torres-González, Valentin López Gayou, Raul Delgado Macuil, Gaetano Assanto, Karen Volke-Sepulveda
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Photonics, Vol 8, Iss 6, p 221 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2304-6732
DOI: 10.3390/photonics8060221
Popis: 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.
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