Annihilation of photorefractive solitons

Wiesław Królikowski; Barry Luther-Davies; Cornelia Denz; Theo Tschudi

doi:10.1364/OL.23.000097

Annihilation of photorefractive solitons

Wiesław Królikowski^*, Barry Luther-Davies, Cornelia Denz, Theo Tschudi

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Abstract

We investigate experimentally the interaction of two-dimensional solitary beams in photorefractive strontium barium niobate crystal. We show that simultaneous collision of many solitons can result in complete annihilation of some of them. This effect depends on the relative phases of the solitons and may be useful for application in the formation of multiport waveguide junctions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-99
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.23.000097
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 1998

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