title: Optical control of arrays of photorefractive screening solitons.
abstract: We discuss the creation of an array of 9 x 9 photorefractive spatial screening solitons in a strontium barium niobate crystal. We investigate the waveguide properties of each channel with a beam of different wavelength and find that the waveguides guide the probe beam independently. A supplementary beam is used to influence the paths of the array solitons and to effectively combine two channels by use of mutual attraction of solitons. To our knowledge this is the first all-optical control of an array of photorefractive solitons. Furthermore, we show that in principle image procession is possible with parallel propagation of photorefractive solitons.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Hochschulstrasse 6, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany. juergen.petter@physik.tu-darmstadt.de
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petter
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schröder
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Träger
authors.forename: Cornelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Denz