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Title: An experimental study of the interactions of self-trapped white light beams in a photopolymer

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2957994· OSTI ID:21124052
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  1. Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M1 (Canada)

Interactions of two parallel-propagating and mutually incoherent white light beams were examined in a photopolymerizable organosiloxane. The beams fused when separated by a distance corresponding to the width of each beam but at separation distances>>beam width, formed two self-trapped beams that repelled each other. At separation distances<beam width, they suffered filamentation but ultimately fused into a single self-trapped beam.

OSTI ID:
21124052
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2957994; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English