Wave propagation in photorefractive media

JO White, SK Kwong, M Cronin-Golomb… - Photorefractive Materials …, 2008 - Springer
… The index of a photorefractive crystal is … waves. Accordingly, the subject of this section
is the nonlinear coupling of two plane waves propagating in a photorefractive crystal, two-wave

Simulation of the temporal behavior of soliton propagation in photorefractive media

J Maufoy, N Fressengeas, D Wolfersberger, G Kugel - Physical Review E, 1999 - APS
… We consider the propagation of light beams in photorefractive media in the framework of a
… in a nonlinear wave propagation equation. This latter is then numerically solved with a beam …

Light waves at the interface of linear and photorefractive media

R Daisy, B Fischer - JOSA B, 1994 - opg.optica.org
… incident wave propagates from the linear side, but the Kerr nonlinearity is replaced by the
photorefractive effect. We then have a new interface problem, since the photorefractive effect is …

Surface waves propagating along the interface between parabolic graded-index medium and photorefractive crystal with diffusion nonlinearity

SE Savotchenko - Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2023 - Elsevier
… We found new surface waves propagating along the contact between the … wave propagation
along the interface between photorefractive crystal and parabolic graded-index medium. …

Propagation of light beams in photorefractive media: fanning, self-bending, and formation of self-pumped four-wave-mixing phase conjugation geometries

AA Zozulya, M Saffman, DZ Anderson - Physical review letters, 1994 - APS
… We investigate propagation of light beams in photorefractive media by direct numerical …
observed in these media. We present results on fanning of a single beam and on formation …

Nonlinear optical beam propagation and solitons in photorefractive media

B Crosignani, P Di Porto, M Segev, G Salamo… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 1998 - Springer
… Inserting this expression into the wave propagation equation allows one to deduce the
equation of evolution of the field amplitude in the form of a spatio-temporal partial differential …

Theory of incoherent self-focusing in biased photorefractive media

DN Christodoulides, TH Coskun, M Mitchell… - Physical Review Letters, 1997 - APS
… 15], and incoherent wave propagation in dispersive media [21]. … beam propagates in a slowly
responding nonlinear medium, … In the particular case of a biased photorefractive crystal, the …

Theory and applications of four-wave mixing in photorefractive media

M Cronin-Golomb, B Fischer, J White… - IEEE Journal of …, 1984 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
photorefractive phase conjugate mirrors, yielding reflectivities and thresholds. The use of
photorefractive … 8(c)] the signal beam 2 passes through a photorefractive medium and returns to …

The surface waves propagating along the contact between the layer with the constant gradient of refractive index and photorefractive crystal

SE Savotchenko - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
… graded-index guiding layer and photorefractive crystal. The … photorefractive crystal and
linearly graded medium. We describe the new types of the nonlinear surface wave propagation

Transverse instability of counterpropagating waves in photorefractive media

M Saffman, D Montgomery, AA Zozulya, K Kuroda… - Physical Review A, 1993 - APS
… It is foundthat, while photorefractive media provide sufhcient nonlinear coupling for the …
F+,—two plane waves propagating symmetrically at an angle 9 to the primary wave [Fig. a)] […