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Diffusion-Trapped Airy Beams in Photorefractive Media

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 25, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.253904

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We report the first experimental observation of self-trapped Airy beams in a nonlinear medium. As opposed to screening or photovoltaic spatial solitons, this new class of self-localized beams owes its existence to carrier diffusion effects. The asymmetric action of two-wave mixing supports the asymmetric intensity profile of the Airy states, with a balance that is independent of the beam intensity (unlike solitons). Further, the self-trapped wave packets self-bend during propagation at an acceleration rate that is independent of the thermal energy associated with the diffusive nonlinearity.

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