Title :
Self-deflection and all-optical beam steering in CdZnTe
Author :
Shwartz, Sharon ; Segev, Mordechai ; El-Hanany, Uri
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We report on the experimental observation of large self-deflection of optical beams and all-optical beam steering. We have observed optically-induced index changes in excess of 0.08, resulting in up to 27 resolvable spots of deflection.
Keywords :
beam steering; cadmium compounds; nonlinear media; nonlinear optics; refractive index; zinc compounds; CdZnTe; all-optical beam steering; nonlinear medium propagation; optical beams; optical self-deflection; optically-induced index changes;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6