Grey spatial solitons due to two-photon photorefractive effect

This paper predicts that grey spatial solitons can exist in two-photon photorefractive materials. In steady state and undcr appropriate external bias conditions, it obtains the grey spatial soliton solutions of the optical wave evolution equation. The intensity profile, phase distribution, and transverse velocity of these grey solitons are discussed.

Temporal Behavior of Low-Amplitude Grey Spatial Solitons in Biased Two-Photon Photorefractive Crystals

The temporal property of grey screening spatial solitons due to two-photon photorefractive effect in lowamplitude regime is analyzed. The results indicate that a broad solitons is generated at the beginning, and as time evolves, the intensity width of grey solitons decreases monotonically to a minimum value toward steady state. In the same propagation time, the FWHM of solitons decreases with p increasing or m decreasing. Moreover, the formation time of solitons is independent of p and m. The time is close to a constant determined by the dielectric relaxation time.

Incoherently Coupled Grey-Grey Spatial Soliton Pairs in Biased Two-Photon Photovoltaic Photorefractive Crystals

The incoherently coupled grey-grey screening-photovoltaic spatial soliton pairs are predicted in biased two-photon photovoltaic photorefractive crystals under steady-state conditions. These grey-grey screening-photovoltaic soliton pairs can be established provided that the incident beams have the same polarization, wavelength, and are mutually incoherent. The grey-grey screening-photovoltaic soliton pairs can be considered as the united form of grey- grey screening soliton pairs and open or closed-circuit grey-grey photovoltaic soliton pairs.

Evolution and stability of spatial solitons in a photorefractive two-wave mixing system

The dynamical evolution and stability of bright dissipative holographic solitons in biased photorefractive materials in which the self-trapping beam obtains a gain from the pump beam via two-wave mixing has been investigated numerically. Results show that these solitons are stable relative to small perturbations. Adjusting some system parameters, such as the bias field and the angle between beams, can easily control the generation of such solitons. Potential applications in optical switches or repeaters are discussed.

Effects of temperature on screening bright-dark the stability of separate spatial soliton pair

We investigate theoretically the temperature effects on the evolution and stability of a separate screening brightdark soliton pair formed in a serial non-photovoltaic photorefractive crystal circuit. Our numerical results show that, for a stable bright-dark soliton pair originally formed in a crystal circuit at given temperatures, when one crystal temperature changes, the soliton supported by the other crystal will evolve into another stable soliton if the temperature change is quite small, whereas it will become unstable and experience larger cycles of compression or break up into beam filaments if the temperature difference is big enough. The dark soliton is more sensitive to the temperature change than the bright one.

Generation and manipulation of bright spatial bound-soliton pairs under the diffusion effect in photovoltaic photorefractive crystals

The generation and propagation characteristics of bright spatial bound-soliton pairs (BSPs) are investigated under the diffusion effect in photovoltaic photorefractive crystals by numerical simulation. The results show that two coherent solitons, one as the signal light and the other as the control light, can form a BSP when the peak intensity of the control light is appropriately selected. Moreover, under the diffusion effect, the BSP experiences a self-bending process during propagating and the center of the BSP moves on a parabolic trajectory. Furthermore, the lateral shift of the BSP at the output face of the crystal can be manipulated by adjusting the peak intensity of the control light. The research results provide a method for the design of all-optical switching and routing based on the manipulation of the lateral position of BSPs.

Incoherent interaction between one- and two-dimensional solitons in noncentrosymmetric photorefractive media

The incoherent interaction between solitons with different transverse dimensions in a noncentrosymmetric photorefractive crystal is studied both in theory and in experiment. An anomalous incoherent interaction between one- and two-dimensional solitons, whose attractive and repulsive effects depend on the soliton separation, is numerically demonstrated by employing an anisotropic model. By launching a one-dimensional green beam and a two-dimensional red beam into a biased SBN：60 crystal, the hybrid-dimensional soliton interaction is performed. The experimental results are in good agreement with the numerical ones.

Separate holographic screening soliton pairs in a biased series photorefractive crystal circuit

Holographic dark （bright） screening solitons are predicted in one dimension for a series circuit consisting of two photorefractive crystals connected electronically by electrode leads in a chain with a voltage source. Each crystal can support a holographic screening soliton. The two solitons are known collectively as a separate holographic screening soliton pair with three types： bright-bright, bright-dark and dark-dark. The numerical results show that the two solitons in a soliton pair can affect each other through a light-induced current and their coupling can affect their spatial profiles under the limit in which the optical wave has a spatial extent much less than the width of the crystal.

Quasistable bright dissipative holographic solitons in photorefractive two-wave mixing system

The dynamical evolution of both signal and pump beams are traced by numerically solving the coupled-wave equation for a photorefractive two-wave mixing system. The direct simulations show that, when the intensity ratio of the pump beam to the signal beam is large enough, the pump beam presents a common decaying behaviour without modulational instability （MI）, while the signal beam can evolve into a quasistable spatial soliton within a regime in which the pump beam is depleted slightly. The larger the ratio is, the longer the regime is. Such quasistable solitons can overcome the initial perturbations and numerical noises in the course of propagation, perform several cycles of slow oscillation in intensity and width, and persist over tens of diffraction lengths. From physical viewpoints, these solitons actually exist as completely rigorous physical objects. If the ratio is quite small, the pump beam is apt to show MI, during which the signal beam experiences strong expansion and shrinking in width and a drastic oscillation in intensity, or completely breaks up. The simulations using actual experimental parameters demonstrate that the observation of an effectively stable soliton is quite possible in the proposed system.

One-Dimensional Modulational Instability of Broad Optical Beams In Photorefractive Crystals with Both Linear and Quadratic Electro-Optic Effects

We present a theoretical study of the one-dimensional modulational instability of a broad optical beam propagating in a biased photorefractive crystal with both linear and quadratic electro-optic effects(Kerr effect)under steadystate conditions.One-dimensional modulational instability growth rates are obtained by treating the space-charge field equation globally and locally.Both theoretical reasoning and numerical simulation show that both the global and local modulational instability gains are governed simultaneously by the strength and the polarity of external bias field and by the ratio of the intensity of the broad beam to that of the dark irradiance.Under a strong bias field,the results obtained using these two methods are in good agreement in the low spatial frequency regime.Moreover,the instability growth rate increases with the bias field,and the maximum instability growth occurs when ratio of light intensity to dark irradiance is 0.88.

Waveguides induced by grey screening solitons

We investigate the properties of waveguides induced by one-dimensional grey screening solitons in biased photorefractive crystals. The results show that waveguides induced by grey screening solitons are always of single mode for all intensity ratios, i,e. the ratios between the peak intensity of the soliton and the dark irradiance. Our analysis indicates that the energy confined near the centre of the grey soliton and the propagation constant of the guided mode of the waveguide induced by the grey screening soliton increase monotonically with intensity ratio increasing. On the other hand, when the soliton greyness increases, the energy confined near the centre of the grey soliton and the propagation constant of the guided mode of the waveguide induced by the grey screening soliton decrease monotonically. Relevant examples are provided where photorefractive crystal is of the strontium barium niobate type.

Grey screening-photovoltaic soliton-induced waveguides

This paper shows that waveguides induced by grey screening-photovoltaic solitons are always single mode for all intensity ratios, which are the ratio between the peak intensity of the soliton and the dark irradiance. It finds that the confined energy near the centre of the grey soliton and the propagation constant of the guided mode increase monotonically with increasing intensity ratio. On the other hand, when the soliton greyness increases, the confined energy near the centre of the grey soliton and the propagation constant of the guided mode reduce monotonically. When the bulk photovoltaic effect is neglected for short circuits, these waveguides become waveguides induced by grey screening solitons. When the external bias field is absent, these waveguides become waveguides induced by grey photovoltaic solitons.

Temporal behaviour of open-circuit photovoltaic solitons

Based on the time-dependent band-transport model in a photorefractive medium,dark open-circuit photovoltaic （PV） solitons are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Compared with those of the time-independent models,our theoretical results revealed that quasi-steady-state and steady-state PV solitons can both be obtained.Our results also revealed that when г〈1（г is the normalized intensity at infinity）,the full width at half maximum （FWHM） of solitons decreases monotonically to a constant value;when г〉1, however, the FWHM of solitons first decreases to a minimum before it increases to a constant value. Moreover,the FWHM of steady solitons decreases with increasing intensity ratio for г〈1,and increases with increasing intensity ratio for г〉1.We further observed dark PV solitons in experiments,and recorded their evolution.These results indicated that steady solitons can be observed at low optical power,while quasi-steady-state solitons can only be generated at higher optical power. Good agreement is found between theory and experiment.

The impact of temperature on the evolution and self-deflection of spatial optical solitons in photovoltaic photorefractive media

The temperature effects on the evolution and self-deflection of bright spatial optical solitons in photo-voltaic photorefractive media were investigated by taking into account diffusion effects. The numerical results show that the evolution of the bright solitary beam depends strongly on the crystal temperature. It is also found that the bending distance of the bright solitary beam centre increases and reaches its maximum value at a characteristic temperature, and then decreases as temperature rises and ap-proaches zero at low and high temperatures. Both the maximum value and characteristic temperature increase with the input power density. The self-deflection of bright solitary beam is further studied by a perturbation technique, and the results are found to be in good agreement with that obtained by the numerical method. The diffusion process and the dark irradiance dominate the temperature depend-ence of bending distance in most values of temperature besides at the characteristic temperature and in the higher temperature regime. The diffusion process will mainly dominate the temperature dependence at the characteristic temperature and the dark irradiance will dominate in the higher tem-perature range.

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.

光折变介质中的空间孤子

本文介绍了光折变空间光孤子的研究历史及发展现状 ,说明了不同类型的光折变空间光孤子的产生条件、物理机理及特性 ,描述并分析了它们之间的相互作用行为 ,最后还展望了它们的应用前景。

非相干耦合亮-暗屏蔽光伏孤子对的温度特性

在忽略扩散效应情况下 ,讨论了外加电场光伏光折变晶体中的非相干耦合亮 暗屏蔽光伏孤子对的温度特性。当温度一定时 ,晶体中可形成稳定的非相干耦合亮 暗屏蔽光伏孤子对 ,当温度变化时 ,孤子对的包络形状可变到另一稳态。通过改变温度 。

加偏压光伏光折变晶体中低振幅屏蔽光伏明孤子的温度特性

在忽略扩散效应的条件下 ,讨论了加偏压光伏光折变晶体中低振幅屏蔽光伏明孤子的温度特性 当温度一定时 ,晶体中可形成稳态屏蔽光伏明孤子 ,当温度改变时 ,孤子由一稳态变为另一稳态 通过适当调节温度 。

暗光伏孤子的实验研究

在LiNbO3∶Fe晶体中,采用相位掩模对部分空间非相干和相干暗光伏孤子进行了实验研究.实验观察到了部分空间非相干和相干的一维和二维暗光伏孤子,它们的形成来源于光伏效应,是自散焦效应和衍射效应平衡的结果.实验和理论分析表明,暗光伏孤子的形成与光的传输方向,强度梯度与晶体c轴夹角有关;只有在一定的条件下,才能得到稳态的部分空间非相干暗光伏孤子.

部分空间非相干暗光伏孤子诱导一维波导研究

在光折变晶体LiNbO3:Fe中观察到部分空间非相干光形成的一维暗光伏孤子,并由此暗光伏孤子在该晶体中诱导出一维波导.暗光伏孤子是由光折变晶体的强光伏效应产生,是晶体自散焦效应和衍射效应相平衡的结果;此外,光伏孤子的形成还依赖于光束的传播方向和晶体光轴与强度梯度的相对方向.在一维情况下,非相干光孤子诱导出单一的平面波导,能够对弱光敏的强光进行导光.实验证明了用低能量非相干光束控制转换高能量相干光束的可能性.