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Published January 1, 1996 | public
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Self-focusing and self-trapping of optical beams upon photopolymerization

Abstract

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 for sufficiently low average optical intensities.

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© Optical Society of America 1996 Received October 2, 1995 This work was supported by the Advanced Research Project Agency's nonlinear optics (DSO) and lithography (MTO) programs and U.S. Army Research Office contract DAAH04-95-C-0063.

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