Soliton-induced waveguides in an organic photorefractive glass

Opt Lett. 2005 Mar 1;30(5):519-21. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.000519.

Abstract

We demonstrate optical waveguiding of a probe beam at 980 nm by a soliton beam at 780 nm in an organic photorefractive monolithic glass. Both planar and circular waveguides induced by one- and two-dimensional spatial solitons formed as a result of orientationally enhanced photorefractive nonlinearity are produced in the organic glass. Possibilities for increasing the speed of waveguide formation are discussed.