Highly nonlocal optical response: Benefit or drawback?

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Hymenoplasty is a surgery that doctors perform to repair girl `s virginity who lost it through virginal intercourse or other accidents. During their practice, doctors may face demands that do not have a therapeutic effect and are derived from the cultural and customary considerations of society. Given the fact that the doctor should also consider the patient's greatest benefit in such cases and...

Self-accelerating optical beams in highly nonlocal nonlinear media.

We find self-accelerating beams in highly nonlocal nonlinear optical media, and show that their propagation dynamics is strongly affected by boundary conditions. Specifically for the thermal optical nonlinearity, the boundary conditions have a strong impact on the beam trajectory: they can increase the acceleration during propagation, or even cause beam bending in a direction opposite to the in...

Nonlocal nonlinear magneto-optical response of a magnetoplasmonic crystal

Experimental reconstruction of nonlocal response of thermal nonlinear optical media.

We study experimentally and theoretically the nonlocal response of a medium with thermal nonlinearity and show that despite its inherently infinite range it can be accurately characterized by a well-defined nonlocal response function. We retrieve the shape of this function and analyze its transformation with the change of boundaries.

Breather solitons in highly nonlocal media

We investigate the breathing of optical spatial solitons in highly nonlocal media. We use a generalization of the Ehrenfest theorem (1990 Am. J. Phys. 58 742) leading to a fourth-order ordinary differential equation, the latter ruling the beam width evolution in propagation. In actual highly nonlocal materials, the original accessible soliton model by Snyder and Mitchell (1997 Science 276 1538)...