Abstract
We investigate the nonlinear propagation of light beams with complex phase and intensity structures, including a Gaussian-embedded vortex, a Bessel vortex, and a Bessel-cosine necklace. We employ a colloidal suspension of bio-synthesized plasmonic gold nanoparticles, where a self-defocusing response is mediated by absorption at the laser wavelength (532 nm). We show that, by means of nonlocal nonlinearity, these structured two-dimensional beams with on-axis singularity can counteract the diffraction of the dark core and guide therein a coaxial Gaussian probe of different wavelengths (633 nm) and lower intensities. Angular steering of the confined probe is also demonstrated by tilting the propagation direction of the pump.
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