Abstract

A theory describing the steady-state propagation of orthogonally polarized planar bright beams in biased photorefractive media is developed. Interactions between soliton states of each polarization in a strontium barium niobate photorefractive crystal are then investigated numerically. Our results indicate that such vector interactions can lead to a number of interesting effects such as beam compression and beam steering.

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Steady-state vortex-screening solitons formed in biased photorefractive media

Zhigang Chen, Ming-feng Shih, Mordechai Segev, Daniel W. Wilson, Richard E. Muller, and Paul D. Maker
Opt. Lett. 22(23) 1751-1753 (1997)

Vector photorefractive spatial solitons

Mordechai Segev, George C. Valley, S. R. Singh, M. I. Carvalho, and D. N. Christodoulides
Opt. Lett. 20(17) 1764-1766 (1995)

Steady-state dark photorefractive screening solitons

Zhigang Chen, Matthew Mitchell, Ming-feng Shih, Mordechai Segev, Mark H. Garrett, and George C. Valley
Opt. Lett. 21(9) 629-631 (1996)

Bright, dark, and gray spatial soliton states in photorefractive media

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Waveguides formed by quasi-steady-state photorefractive spatial solitons

Matthew Morin, Galen Duree, Gregory Salamo, and Mordechai Segev
Opt. Lett. 20(20) 2066-2068 (1995)