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Collision and fusion of counterpropagating micrometer-sized optical beams in periodically biased photorefractive crystals

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Abstract

We theoretically investigate collision of optical beams traveling in opposite directions through a centrosymmetric photorefractive crystal biased by a spatially periodic voltage. We analytically predict the fusion of counterpropagating solitons in conditions in which the applied voltage is rapidly modulated along the propagation axis, so that self-bending is suppressed by the “restoring symmetry” mechanism. Moreover, when the applied voltage is slowly modulated, we predict that the modified self-bending allows conditions in which the two beams fuse together, forming a curved light-channel splice.

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