Interaction of self-trapped beams in high index glass

E. D'Asaro, S. Heidari-Bateni, A. Pasquazi, G. Assanto, J. Gonzalo, J. Solis and C.N. Afonso

Opt. Express 17, 17150 (2009)

Abstract:

We observe attraction, repulsion and energy exchange between two self-trapped beams in a heavy-metal-oxide glass exhibiting a Kerr-like response with multiphoton absorption. The coherent interaction between spatial soliton is controlled by their relative phase and modeled by a nonlinear dissipative Schroedinger equation