Abstract
Fully-structured light – light with non-uniform intensity, phase and polarisation – lies at the heart of an emerging and extremely promising field of research, with applications in high-resolution imaging, optical trapping and manipulation of nanoparticles, plasmonic lithography, and optical communication. We show that the interplay of polarisation structure and nonlinearity can be used as a means of controlling both the polarisation distribution and the fragmentation of such beams as they propagate in a self-focusing nonlinear medium.
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