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Role of the local response of a photorefractive medium in the formation of a spatial screened soliton

S. A. Asselborn, Наталия Дмитриевна Кундикова, I V Novikov

Published Sep 30, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

The propagation of intensity-modulated laser radiation in a barium—sodium niobate crystal is studied in an external electric field. The possibility of controlling a nonlinear local response of the crystal is demonstrated. It is shown experimentally that the conditions of formation of a one-dimensional spatial soliton can be changed by varying the nonlinear response of the crystal.

DOI: 10.1070/qe2008v038n09abeh013734

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