Observation of transverse instabilities in optically induced lattices

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 259-261

  Neshev, Dragomir ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCH WAVE; NONLINEAR INTERBAND COUPLING; OPTICALLY INDUCED LATTICE; PHOTONIC LATTICE; STRONTIUM BARIUM NIOBATE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER BEAMS; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 0842321983     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.000259     Document Type: Article

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9. Experimentally, the angle between the induced waveguides and the probe beam is measured in air by the degree of rotation of the beam splitter that combines the orthogonally polarized beams. The actual angle inside the crystal is n = 2.3 times smaller.