Investigation of the interaction of a pair of bright optical spatial pyroelectric solitons during their in-phase propagation in an undoped lithium niobate crystal at a wavelength of 532 nm

Abstract

Abstract The formation of two-dimensional bright spatial solitons by in-phase laser beams with a wavelength of 532 nm propagating in the bulk of photorefractive lithium niobate crystal under the reversal of the sign of the nonlinear optical response of the material with the contribution of the pyroelectric effect has been experimentally demonstrated. It is shown that varying the distance between the beams at the input face of the crystal leads to the interaction of pyroelectric solitons, which allows the formation of non-rectilinear propagation paths of light beams.