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Spatial switching of an optical signal in a defocusing photorefractive crystal

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The method of spatial switching of the propagation direction of an optical signal, based on the effect of signal wave reflection upon interaction with a high-power pump beam in bulk photorefractive media with defocusing nonlinearity has been considered for the first time. Criteria of signal reflection from a pump-induced optical inhomogeneity in a material are determined. Trajectories of the signal wave center are obtained for characteristic reflection parameters.

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  1. Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    I. V. Kabakova & A. P. Sukhorukov

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  1. I. V. Kabakova
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Kabakova, A.P. Sukhorukov, 2008, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2008, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 8–11.

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Kabakova, I.V., Sukhorukov, A.P. Spatial switching of an optical signal in a defocusing photorefractive crystal. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 72, 3–5 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873808010024

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