Abstract
We present a new type of spatial soliton, generated by the photorefractive (PR) effect of the medium. The shape of the soliton modulates the refractive index via the PR effect, which results in an exact compensation for the effects of diffraction, and causes the light beam to propagate the unvarying profile. This index modulation is represented in the formalism as a distribution of index gratings, each one of them induced by the interference between two spatial (frequency) plane wave components of the light beam. Since the efficiency of this effect is independent of absolute light intensity, these new solitons can be generated even at very moderate light intensities. Moreover, a given soliton waveform can propagate unchanged in the medium, at very high or very low light intensities (and at all levels in between).
© 1992 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Mordechai Segev, Bruno Crosignani, and Amnon Yariv
WA4 Nonlinear Optics (NLO) 1992
Mordechai Segev, Amir Saa'r, and Amnon Yariv
MB6 Photorefractive Materials, Effects, and Devices II (PR) 1991
Wieslaw Królikowski, Mark Saffman, Barry Luther-Davies, and Cornelia Denz
NThC.3 Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NP) 1998