OPTICALLY INDUCED PHOTOVOLTAIC SELF-DEFOCUSING-TO-SELF-FOCUSING TRANSITION

Authors
ANASTASSIOU C SHIH MF MITCHELL M CHEN ZG SEGEV M
Citation
C. Anastassiou et al., OPTICALLY INDUCED PHOTOVOLTAIC SELF-DEFOCUSING-TO-SELF-FOCUSING TRANSITION, Optics letters, 23(12), 1998, pp. 924-926
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
23
Issue
12
Year of publication
1998
Pages
924 - 926
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1998)23:12<924:OIPST>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We show theoretically and experimentally that the photovoltaic nonline arity that gives rise to spatial solitons can be switched from self-de focusing to self-focusing (or vice versa) by use of background illumin ation. This raises the possibility of bright photovoltaic solitons in LiNbO3. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.