Title :
Guiding light by soliton waveguides in photorefractive lithium niobate crystals
Author :
Vlad, V.I. ; Petris, A. ; Fazio, E. ; Bosco, A. ; Bertolotti, M.
Author_Institution :
NILPRP-Romanian Center of Excellence In Photonics, Inst.of Atomic Phys., Bucharest, Romania
Abstract :
In this paper, we demonstrate guiding of c.w. and femtosecond laser beams in waveguides induced by bright spatial solitons in lithium niobate crystals. Bright spatial solitons were written with low-power c.w. and pulsed laser beams in photorefractive lithium niobate crystals.
Keywords :
laser beams; lithium compounds; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; optical waveguides; photorefractive materials; LiNbO3; bright spatial solitons; femtosecond laser beams; photorefractive lithium niobate crystal; pulsed laser beams; soliton waveguides; Chemical lasers; Crystals; Laser beams; Lithium niobate; Optical waveguides; Photorefractive materials; Solitons; Waveguide lasers; Waveguide transitions; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8974-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1567952
