Abstract
Optical beam splitting has been first reported for photorefractive waveguides built by titanium diffusion in LiNbO3 [1,2]. The effect has been qualitatively explained as an appearance of spatial dark solitons in self-defocusing nonlinear medium [3]. Optical splitting has also been observed in pure self-defocusing Kerr media in a two dimensional configuration [4,5] similar to that of a slab waveguide. The splitting effect in this case is apparently associated with dark spatial solitons. This paper presents theoretical and experimental data and discusses a theoretical model developed to study optical beam splitting induced by photobleaching a dye-doped polymeric waveguide, where instant refractive index reaction to light intensity redistribution is replaced by permanent index decrease associated with dye photobleaching.
© 1997 Optical Society of America
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