Self-deflection of partially spatially coherent beams and solitons in photorefractive crystals

Summary form only given. Using the so-called coherent density approach, we have investigated both analytically and numerically the self-bending behavior of partially coherent beams and solitons in biased and unbiased photorefractive crystals. We found that in the case of bright incoherent soliton beams the self-bending angle increases as the degree of coherence of the optical beam decreases.