In this paper, we investigated the beam fanning, self-focusing, and self-defocusing in a photorefractive BCT crystal at an input power of 3 mW for the wavelength of 633 nm without an external electric field and without background illumination. The internal effective coercitive electric field acts for external electric field and the thermal excitation cross-section plays the role of a background illumination. The intensity profile of the beam is smoothed at 65 /spl mu/m and that the drift mechanism dominates for the beam diameters, which correspond to the symmetrical self-focusing and self-defocusing. The dominant character of the drift mechanism was proven by experiments for two-wave-mixing, whereas there was no energy coupling between interfering beams.


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    Title :

    Investigations of self-trapped beams in a photorefractive BCT crystal


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    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


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    204803 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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