• DocumentCode
    547078
  • Title

    Optomechanical self-channelling of light in freely suspended dual-planar-waveguide structure

  • Author

    Butsch, A. ; Biancalana, F. ; Conti, C. ; Russell, P. St J

  • Author_Institution
    Max Planck Inst. for the Sci. of Light, Erlangen, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    It is shown that optomechanical forces can cause nonlinear self-channelling of light in two parallel silica nanowebs suspended inside a fibre capillary. The effective optical nonlinearity is a million times higher than the Kerr effect.
  • Keywords
    optical Kerr effect; optical planar waveguides; Kerr effect; fibre capillary; freely suspended dual planar waveguide structure; nanowebs; optical nonlinearity; optomechanical forces; self channelling of light; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951631
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=547078