We report the first observation of optical spatial solitons in an organic photorefractive monolithic glass. Self-trapping of light as well as optically induced focusing-to-defocusing switching was observed, owning to the orientationally enhanced photorefractive nonlinearity.


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    Title :

    Self-trapping of light in a photorefractive organic glass


    Contributors:
    Asaro, M. (author) / Chen, Z. (author) / Ostroverkhova, O. (author) / Moerner, W.E. (author) / He, M. (author) / Twieg, R.J. (author) / Salamo, G. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    161784 byte



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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