Journal of Modern Optics

Soliton-controlled switching in photorefractive media

Eugenia D. Eugenieva, Rostislav V. Roussev, Stoyan Dinev

Published Jun 1, 1997• 5 citations

Abstract

Soliton-controlled switching in photorefractive media using quasi-steady-state photorefractive, spatial solitons has been studied theoretically. The optimal beam diameters, separations and other parameters have been found for the case of a strontium barium niobate (SBN) crystal. On—off ratios higher than 10 have been obtained

DOI: 10.1080/09500349708230724

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