Thermally induced self-focusing and optical beam interactions in planar strontium barium niobate waveguides
Publication date
1998-03
Document type
Research article
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Universität Osnabrück
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Optics letters
Periodical volume
23
Periodical issue
5
First page
343
Last page
345
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Nein
Abstract
We present an experimental study of thermally induced self-focusing effects and interactions of incoherent light beams in strontium barium niobate waveguides. Depending on the input power, a single parallel beam is strongly focused inside the sample up to diameters of several micrometers. For higher input power we observe the splitting of the beam in a sequence of several spots. We demonstrate that these thermally induced refractive-index patterns can be used to focus and deflect an incoherent guided probe beam in the waveguide with time constants below 1 ms. © 1998 Optical Society of America.
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