Steering and Locking of Discrete Solitons in Optical Waveguide Arrays

• Authors: U. Peschel , F. Lederer , R. Morandotti , J. Aitchison , H. Eisenberg , Y. Silberberg
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

By operating an AlGaAs waveguide array at the half band gap, we experimentally demonstrate basic features of discrete systems, which do not appear in the corresponding continuous counterpart - the slab waveguide. Under selected initial conditions, we observed nonlinearly induced locking of an initially moving soliton to the input waveguide. If the power is even higher, originally locked beams start to move again, but in a direction opposite to the initial tilt.

Keywords

EN

42.65.Tg; 42.65.Wi; 42.82.Et

Discipline

• 42.65.Wi: Nonlinear waveguides
• 42.65.Tg: Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves(for solitons in fibers, see 42.81.Dp)
• 42.82.Et: Waveguides, couplers, and arrays(for fiber waveguides, see 42.81.Qb)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 57-65

Dates

published

2001-01

received

2001-06-08

Contributors

author

U. Peschel

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Max-Wien-Pl. 1, 07743 Jena, Germany

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F. Lederer

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Max-Wien-Pl. 1, 07743 Jena, Germany

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R. Morandotti

• Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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J. Aitchison

• Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

author

H. Eisenberg

• Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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Y. Silberberg

• Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.99.57