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Nonlinear increments to the refractive index in photorefractive planar waveguides based on cubic noncentrosymmetric crystals are calculated. A dependence of the nonlinear increment on the waveguide radiation polarization and crystal orientation is demonstrated.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 8–14, May, 2006.
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Frolova, M.N. Nonlinear increments to the refractive index in photorefractive planar waveguides based on cubic noncentrosymmetric crystals. Russ Phys J 49, 461–467 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-006-0127-4
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