Self-trapping of light in an organic photorefractive glass

Opt Lett. 2003 Dec 15;28(24):2509-11. doi: 10.1364/ol.28.002509.

Abstract

We report the first observation, to our knowledge, of self-trapping of light as well as optically induced focusing-to-defocusing switching in an organic photorefractive glass, owing to the orientationally enhanced photorefractive nonlinearity of the material.