title: Soliton-induced waveguides in an organic photorefractive glass.
abstract: We demonstrate optical waveguiding of a probe beam at 980 nm by a soliton beam at 780 nm in an organic photorefractive monolithic glass. Both planar and circular waveguides induced by one- and two-dimensional spatial solitons formed as a result of orientationally enhanced photorefractive nonlinearity are produced in the organic glass. Possibilities for increasing the speed of waveguide formation are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA.
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asaro
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sheldon
authors.forename: Zhigang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Oksana
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ostroverkhovat
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Moerner