Spatio-temporal optical vortices |
| TYPE | Special Seminar - Solid State Institute, Technion |
| Speaker: | Prof. Howard Milchberg |
| Affiliation: | Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Maryland, U.S.A. |
| Date: | 07.07.2019 |
| Time: | 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Location: | Solid State Auditorium(Entrance) |
| Presentation: |  |
| Abstract: |
I will describe our discovery of spatio-temporal optical vortices (STOVs), a new type of orbital angular momentum structure that appears spontaneously in the arrested catastrophic collapse of a self-focusing pulse. Although previously unanticipated, STOVs appear to be a common and universal, providing a unifying picture of nonlinear self-guided propagation and its robustness. I will also present recent single shot measurements catching an ultrashort STOV-carrying pulse in mid-flight.
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