Incoherently coupled dark-bright photorefractive solitons

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作者
Chen, ZG
Segev, M
Coskun, TH
Christodoulides, DN
Kivshar, YS
Afanasjev, VV
机构
[1] PRINCETON UNIV, CTR PHOTON & OPTOELECT MAT, PRINCETON, NJ 08544 USA
[2] LEHIGH UNIV, DEPT ELECT ENGN & COMP SCI, BETHLEHEM, PA 18015 USA
[3] AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV, CTR OPT SCI, CANBERRA, ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA
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10.1364/OL.21.001821
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report the observation of incoherently coupled dark-bright spatial soliton pairs in a biased bulk photorefractive crystal. When such a pair is decoupled, the dark component evolves into a triplet structure,whereas the bright one decays into a self-defocusing beam. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America.
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页码:1821 / 1823
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