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Self-trapping of light in an organic photorefractive glass
Zhigang Chen1, Marcus Asaro, Oksana Ostroverkhova
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA. zchen@stars.sfsu.edu
Optics Letters
|December 24, 2003
Abstract:
We report the first observation, to our knowledge, of self-trapping of light as well as optically induced focusing-to-defocusing switching in an organic photorefractive glass, owing to the orientationally enhanced photorefractive nonlinearity of the material.
