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3D-vortex labyrinths in the near field of solid-state microchip laser

A. Yu. Okulov
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The spatiotemporal vortex lattices generated in high Fresnel number solid-state microchip lasers are studied in connection with Talbot phenomenon generic to spatially periodic electromagnetic fields. The spatial layout of light field is obtained via dynamical model based on Maxwell-Bloch equations for class-B laser, discrete Fox-Lee map with relaxation of inversion and static model based on superposition of copropagating Gaussian beams. The spatial patterns observed experimentally and obtained numerically are interpreted as nonlinear superposition of vortices with helicoidal phase dislocations. The usage of vortex labyrinths and Talbot lattices as optical dipole traps for neutral atoms is considered for the wavelength of trapping radiation in the range 0.98 $÷$ 2.79 $μm$. The separable optical trapping potential is mounted as a sum of array of vortex lines and additional parabolic subtrap. The factorization of macroscopic wavefunction have led to analytical solution of Gross-Pitaevski equation for ground state of ensemble of quantum particles trapped in vortex labyrinth and in spatially - periodic array of Gaussian beams.

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A. Yu. Okulov. 2007-04-13. 3D-vortex labyrinths in the near field of solid-state microchip laser. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340701395796

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