Fixing multiple waveguides induced by photorefractive solitons: directional couplers and beam splitters.
- 15 August 2001
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 26 (16) , 1274-1276
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.26.001274
Abstract
We show how to transform multiple real-time photorefractive solitons into permanent two-dimensional single-mode waveguides impressed into the crystalline lattice of the host material. We experimentally demonstrate two specific configurations of such fixed multiple waveguides: directional couplers and multiple beam splitters.Keywords
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