Incoherently coupled dark–bright photorefractive solitons
- 15 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 21 (22) , 1821-1823
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.21.001821
Abstract
We report the observation of incoherently coupled dark–bright spatial soliton pairs in a biased bulk photorefractive crystal. When such a pair is decoupled, the dark component evolves into a triplet structure, whereas the bright one decays into a self-defocusing beam.Keywords
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