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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)750-752
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume30
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2005
Externally publishedYes

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