Paper A52

Experimental reconstruction of nonlocal response of thermal nonlinear optical media

A. Minovich, D. N. Neshev, A. Dreischuh, W. Krolikowski, and Yu. S. Kivshar

Abstract.

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.