Abstract
The evolution of fundamental beams into quadratic spatial solitons was investigated in a periodically poled bulk crystal near and at phase matching. Various soliton properties, such as trapping efficiency as a function of phase mismatch, poling-induced walk-off, and the effects of pulse width, beam width, and input beam quality, were measured. Effects attributed to the presence of cubic nonlinearities were also observed.
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