Gray spatial solitons in biased two-photon photovoltaic photorefractive crystals

This paper predicts that gray spatial solitons can exist in biased two-photon photovoltaic photorefractive crystals. Under appropriate conditions and in the steady state, the gray spatial solitons solution of the optical evolution equation is obtained. The properties associated with these solitons, such as their intensity profile, intensity full width at half-maximum, width, transverse velocity and phase distribution, are discussed as functions of their normalized intensity and degree of “grayness”. Relevant examples are provided.     

Incoherently coupled grey-grey spatial soliton pairs due to two-photon photorefractive media

The coupling of two mutually incoherent optical beams with the same polarization and wavelength in two-photon photorefractive media is studied; it is shown that incoherently coupled grey-grey spatial soliton pairs are possible due to two-photon photorefractive effect under appropriate bias conditions. The relevant example is presented. The grey-grey spatial soliton pairs reduce to dark-dark spatial soliton pairs when the greyness is zero.     

Self-Deflection of Dark Screening Spatial Solitons Based on Higher-Order Space Charge Field

The effects of higher-order space charge field on the self-deflection of dark screening spatial solitons in biased photorefractive crystals are numerically investigated under steady-state conditions. The expression for an induced space-charge electric field including higher-order space-charge field terms is obtained. Numerical results indicate that dark solitons possess a self-deflection process during propagation, and the solitons always bend in the direction of the c axis of the crystal. The self-deflection of dark solitons can experience considerable increase especially in the regime of high bias field strengths.     

Incoherently coupled bright–dark hybrid soliton families in biased photovoltaic–photorefractive crystals

The propagation of multiple mutually incoherent spatial solitons in biased photovoltaic–photorefractive crystals is investigated under steady-state conditions. It is shown that incoherently coupled bright–dark hybrid screening–photovoltaic soliton families can be established in the crystals provided that the mutually incoherent incident beams have the same polarization and the same wavelength. Relevant examples are presented where the photovoltaic–photorefractive crystal is taken to be lithium niobate. Received: 15 May 2000 / Revised version: 27 July 2000 / Published online: 5 October 2000     

Modulational instability of optical beams in photovoltaic and photorefractive media due to two-photon photorefractive effect under open circuit condition

The modulational instability of broad optical beams in two-photon photorefractive (PR) photovoltaic materials under open circuit conditions has been investigated. Under linear stability framework, the one dimensional modulational instability growth rate has been estimated by considering the space charge field. Gain of the instability is shown to exist only when the photovoltaic fields orients in the same direction with respect to the optical c-axis of the medium. It is found that the behavior of the gain spectrum is different in low and high power regions. We have found by numerical simulations that the evolution of the soliton induced by the modulational instability at low photovoltaic field show the dynamical behaviors similar to those of the localized beam as the initial profile. However, it has been shown that increasing photovoltaic fields produce traveling, breathing, and mutually interacting solitons.     

Spatial photorefractive solitons with picosecond laser pulses

We report on the formation of spatial optical solitons in photorefractive media using picosecond laser pulses. Solitons are generated with laser pulses in the visible and infrared wavelength region using photorefractive strontium barium niobate. The dynamics of the soliton formation and the region of existence is studied in detail.     

Frequency-doubling in self-induced waveguides in lithium niobate

Efficient frequency-doubling is experimentally demonstrated in presence of beam self-trapping in congruent lithium niobate crystal. The self-trapping is induced by the generated second harmonic beam via photorefractive effect under an external applied field. The local space charge field distribution, formed by the second harmonic beam, is shown to efficiently trap both wavelengths. The dynamics of self-focusing is studied along with the power evolution of the second harmonic beam. Fast tuning of phase matching conditions in the written waveguide is realized by an externally applied voltage also used for the photorefractive confinement.     

Incoherently coupled bright-dark photovoltaic soliton pairs based on two-photon photorefractive effect

The coupling of two mutually incoherent optical beams with the same polarization and wavelength in two-photon photovoltaic photorefractive crystal is studied, it is predicted theoretically that incoherently coupled bright-dark photovoltaic spatial soliton pairs are possible due to two-photon photorefractive effect. The existing conditions of these soliton pairs in the crystal are discussed in detail. The intensity profile of these soliton pairs is shown by numerical calculation under the parameters of relevant crystal.     

基于双光子光折变效应的非相干耦合灰光伏孤子族

为了研究开路条件下双光子光伏光折变材料中的灰光伏孤子族,建立了光伏孤子族的动态演化方程,给出了非相干耦合灰光伏孤子族的数值解.采用数值模拟的方法,求解孤子族的数值表达式.结果表明:这种孤子族是由多束偏振方向和波长都相同的互不相干光束耦合形成的.当孤子族只有两个分量时,灰光伏孤子族可以退化成灰-灰光伏孤子对;当孤子的灰度...     

基于双光子光折变效应的非相干耦合灰光伏孤子族

为了研究开路条件下双光子光伏光折变材料中的灰光伏孤子族,建立了光伏孤子族的动态演化方程,给出了非相干耦合灰光伏孤子族的数值解.采用数值模拟的方法,求解孤子族的数值表达式.结果表明:这种孤子族是由多束偏振方向和波长都相同的互不相干光束耦合形成的.当孤子族只有两个分量时,灰光伏孤子族可以退化成灰-灰光伏孤子对|当孤子的灰度参量取零时,灰光伏孤子族退化成暗光伏孤子族,灰-灰光伏孤子对退化成暗-暗光伏孤子对.文中采用的光伏光折变材料是LiNbO3.     

Temporal behavior of dark spatial solitons in closed-circuit photovoltaic media

We show that the time-dependent nonlinear wave equation in closed-circuit photovoltaic media can exhibit quasi-steady-state and steady-state spatial solitons. We demonstrate that the formation time of open-circuit quasi-steady-state and open-circuit steady-state dark solitons decreases with an increase in the intensity ratio of the soliton, which is the ratio between the soliton peak intensity and the dark irradiance. We find that for the time-dependent nonlinear wave equation that exhibits only an open-circuit steady-state dark soliton, changing the electric current density J₀ does not generate quasi-steady-state dark solitons and affects the formation time of steady-state dark solitons and that for the time-dependent nonlinear wave equation that exhibits an open-circuit quasi-steady-state dark soliton, changing J₀ gives rise to three different time evolution regimes of the full width half maximum of the soliton’s intensity. The first regime shows that the formation time of steady-state dark solitons increases with J₀ whereas the formation time of quasi-steady-state dark solitons is independent of J₀. The second regime shows that the formation time of steady-state dark solitons decreases with an increases in J₀ and the formation time of quasi-steady-state dark solitons increases with J₀. The third regime shows that changing J₀ enables only steady-state dark solitons in the time-dependent nonlinear wave equation, of which the formation time increases with J₀.     

Waveguides induced by steady-state gray solitons in biased photorefractive-photovoltaic crystals

We carry out a theoretical investigation of the properties of waveguides induced by photorefractive one-dimensional steady-state gray spatial solitons (i.e., screening solitons, photovoltaic solitons, and screening-photovoltaic solitons). We demonstrate that waveguides induced by photorefractive steady-state gray spatial solitons are only a single guided mode for both all soliton graynesses and all values of ρ, where ρ is the ratio between the soliton peak intensity and the dark irradiance, and moreover, waveguides induced by gray photovoltaic solitons for closed-circuit condition are also only a single guided mode for all electric current densities. We find that the confined energy near the center of a photorefractive steady-state gray spatial soliton increases with ρ and decreases with an increase in the soliton grayness. We also find that the confined energy near the center of a gray photovoltaic soliton for closed-circuit condition increases with the electric current density. On the other hand, waveguides induced by gray screening-photovoltaic solitons are gray screening soliton-induced waveguides when the bulk photovoltaic effect is neglectable and are gray photovoltaic soliton-induced waveguides when the external bias field is absent.     

有偏压中心对称光折变晶体中的屏蔽孤子

给出了中心对称光折变晶体中屏蔽孤子的高阶空间电荷场.当高阶项可以忽略时,这个电荷场就变为早前在中心对称光折变晶体中研究的屏蔽孤子的空间电荷场.研究了中心对称光折变晶体中屏蔽孤子的高阶非线性波动方程.在适当的条件下,这个非线性波动方程能够展示明暗空间光孤子.这类晶体不同于非中心对称晶体,其非线性折射率的改变来源于二次电光效应,而不是一般的线性电光效应.应用光束传播的方法,对这些孤子的稳定性进行了讨论.表明在小的微扰下这类孤子是稳定的,不会发生分裂.     

双光子光折变晶体串联回路中独立全息屏蔽空间孤子对

为了得到双光子独立全息屏蔽空间孤子对的结果,基于光折变晶体中的两波耦合和双光子光折变效应,证明在由两块双光子光折变晶体和一个电压源通过导线连接组成的串联回路中存在全息亮(暗)屏蔽孤子。每块晶体中能支持一个全息屏蔽孤子,这两个孤子称为双光子独立全息屏蔽孤子对,有明-明、暗-暗和明-暗三种类型。数值计算结果表明,在光束的空间展宽远小于晶体宽度的极限条件下,孤子对中的两孤子通过光电流和相互耦合能影响到这些孤子的空间包络和动态演化特性。     

Self-deflection of partially spatially incoherent beams and solitons in photovoltaic photorefractive crystals

By considering the effect of background light and diffusion, the self-deflection process of partially spatially incoherent (PSIC) beams and photovoltaic (PV) solitons in open-circuit PV photorefractive crystals has been investigated by employing numerical method and the perturbation technique, respectively. The results from the two approaches are in good agreement: the center of PSIC PV solitons moves on a parabolic trajectory, which is similar to those of coherent solitons. In addition, we also discuss that the dependence of self-deflection effect on the coherent parameter θ₀ and find it is slight relative to θ₀ for quasi-soliton but decreases monotonously with θ₀ for PSIC beam.     

含分压电阻的非相干耦合光折变屏蔽光伏空间孤子对

建立了含分压电阻的非相干耦合光折变屏蔽光伏空间孤子对理论.当分压电阻、晶体外加电场和晶体的光伏场取不同值时,可分别得到有无分压电阻的非相干耦合屏蔽孤子对、开路的非相干耦合光伏孤子对、有无分压电阻的闭路的非相干耦合光伏孤子对和有无分压电阻的非相干耦合屏蔽光伏孤子对.先前已报道的非相干耦合孤子对理论都可在不同的条件下从本文理论得出.     

Transition from Backscattering Speckles to Phase Conjugation in LiNbO3：Fe

We investigate the backscattering for converging beams in iron-doped lithium niobate crystals. Due to the nonlinear properties of the crystal, backscattering exhibits temporally fluctuating speckles that make a transition to the phase conjugate of the incident beam under certain circumstances. Our observation seems to point to a new kind of self-pumped phase conjugation in photorefractive media.     

Solitary Wave Evolution of Optical Planar Vortices in Self-Defocusing Photorefractive Media

Solitary wave evolution of optical planar vortices in isotropie self-defoeusing photorefractive media is investigated in detail. We demonstrate that the formation of a planar vortex soliton intensively depends on the diameter and maximum intensity of the input vortex Seam. The exact solutions of planar vortex solitons are obtained due to the Petviashvili iteration method. It is found that, with the increasing soliton maximum intensity, the soliton core will be gradually diminished to a minimum value.     

亮-暗非相干耦合光伏孤子对

对开路光伏介质中两束共线传播的互不相干光束的耦合作用进行了研究，发现在光伏效应的作用下，介质中可形成亮-暗非相干耦合空间孤子对，并对这种孤子对的物理特性进行了讨论。     

Quasi-stable propagation of vortices and soliton clusters in saturable Kerr media with square-root nonlinearity

Analytical and numerical investigation of the propagation of optical beams in Kerr-like saturable photorefractive media is carried out, utilizing a novel model for the local isotropic part of the space-charge field generated in the medium. Using a variational technique, optimal propagation parameters for the most stable propagation of otherwise unstable single Gaussian, single vortex, and optical soliton cluster beams are determined. Analogy between a ring of identical weakly overlapping solitons and a vortex of the same topological charge is explored.