Dynamic instability of self-induced bidirectional waveguides in photorefractive media

Philip Jander; Jochen Schröder; Cornelia Denz; Milan Petrovié; Milivoj R. Belié

doi:10.1364/OL.30.000750

Dynamic instability of self-induced bidirectional waveguides in photorefractive media

Philip Jander
, Jochen Schröder
, Cornelia Denz
, Milan Petrovié
, Milivoj R. Belié

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Abstract

We report on the experimental observation of a dynamic instability in the interaction of counterpropagating self-trapped beams in a photorefractive strontium barium niobate crystal. While the interaction of copropagating spatial optical solitons exhibits only transient dynamics, resulting in a final steady state, the counterpropagating geometry supports a dynamic instability mediated by intrinsic feedback. Experimental observations are compared with and found to be in qualitative agreement with numerical simulations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	750-752
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	30
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.30.000750
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2005
Externally published	Yes

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Dynamic instability of self-induced bidirectional waveguides in photorefractive media

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