Self-focusing and self-trapping of optical beams upon photopolymerization
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Self-focusing and self-trapping of optical beams upon photopolymerization.
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that optical beams are self-focused and self-trapped upon initiating photopolymerization. This unique nonlinear optical phenomenon is dependent on the optical exposure and produces permanent index-of-refraction changes larger than 0.04. The resulting nonlinear wave equation is shown to be nonlocal in time and displays self-trapped solutions only f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Optics Letters
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0146-9592,1539-4794
DOI: 10.1364/ol.21.000024