Abstract
We investigate both analytically and numerically the self-bending behavior of partially coherent beams and solitons in biased and unbiased photorefractive crystals. We show that in the linear diffraction regime, the self-bending angle decreases with increasing the degree of incoherence. This is in contrast with the case of partially coherent soliton beams.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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