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Self-Action of Light Fields in Waveguide Photon Structures Based on Electro-Optic Crystals

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Special features of spatial self-action of light fields in nonlinear optical photonic waveguide structures formed in strontium barium niobate and lithium niobate electro-optic crystals are discussed. The main methods of forming such structures including photorefractive waveguide elements and systems are briefly considered. The formation of spatial optical solitons in planar waveguides based on lithium niobate and strontium barium niobate crystals as well as in one-dimensional photonic lattices in lithium niobate is demonstrated experimentally for light beams of microwatt power. In regimes of spatial optical solitons, channel optical waveguides are formed not only in the planar waveguides, but also in the volume of photorefractive lithium niobate.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 13–21, October, 2015.

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Shandarov, V.M. Self-Action of Light Fields in Waveguide Photon Structures Based on Electro-Optic Crystals. Russ Phys J 58, 1378–1386 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-016-0659-1

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