Spiraling behavior of photorefractive screening solitons Academic Article

abstract

• The question of spiraling or no spiraling of incoherent screening spatial solitons in photorefractive crystals is addressed by a careful numerical analysis. We find that the interaction of solitons typically results in an initial mutual rotation of their trajectories, followed by damped oscillations and the fusion of solitons. The rotation can be propelled to prolonged spiraling by the skewed launching of beams. This behavior is caused by the anisotropy of the refractive index change in the crystal. 1999 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Belic, Milivoj

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Belic, M. R., Stepken, A., & Kaiser, F.

citation count

• 36

complete list of authors

• Belic, MR||Stepken, A||Kaiser, F

publication date

• January 1999

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.544

start page

• 544

end page

• 547

volume

• 82

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.82.544