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Self-Trapping of Optical Beams and Light-Induced Waveguiding in Photorefractive InP at Telecommunication Wavelengths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

M. E. Chauvet ,
S. A. Hawkins ,
G. J. Salamo ,
M. Segev ,
D. F. Bliss  and
G. Bryant
M. E. Chauvet
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, salamo@comp.uark.edu
S. A. Hawkins
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, salamo@comp.uark.edu
G. J. Salamo
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, salamo@comp.uark.edu
M. Segev
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Advanced Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
D. F. Bliss
Affiliation:
U.S. Air Force, Rome Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts 01731
G. Bryant
Affiliation:
U.S. Air Force, Rome Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts 01731
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Abstract

We demonstrate self-trapping of a two-dimensional beam at 1.3 microns wavelength in resonantly-enhanced InP. The self-trapped beam also induces a two-dimensional optical waveguide in bulk InP, which guides a second beam at 1.55 micron wavelength.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 450: Symposium O – Infrared Applications of Semiconductors , 1996 , 345
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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