Title :
Photorefractive spatial solitons-theory and experiments
Author :
Segev, Mordechai ; Duree, Galen ; Salamo, Gregory ; Crosignani, Bruno ; Porto, Paolo Di ; Yariv, Amnon ; Sharp, Edward
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
The existence of photorefractive (PR) spatial solitons has been predicted by us some two years ago(1,2). The self-trapping effects occur when diffraction is exactly balanced by self-scattering (two-wave mixing) of the spatial (plane wave) components of the soliton beam
Keywords :
optical solitons; photorefractive effect; photorefractive spatial solitons; self-scattering; self-trapping effects; two-wave mixing; Diffraction; Laboratories; Material properties; Optical beams; Optical mixing; Optical solitons; Photorefractive effect; Physics; Telephony; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1473-5
DOI :
10.1109/NLO.1994.470817
