Observation of the self-guided propagation of a dark and bright spatial soliton pair in a focusing nonlinear medium

Author

Shalaby, Mohamed ; Barthelemy, Alain J.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Recherches en Commun. Optiques et Microondes, Limoges, France

Volume

28

Issue

12

fYear

1992

fDate

12/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2736

Lastpage

2741

Abstract

Experimental results are presented showing the simultaneous propagation of a dark and bright spatial solitary waves of different colors (1064 and 532 nm) in a homogeneous Kerr medium of the focusing type, owing to cross-phase modulation. They correspond to a soliton pair, already proposed as a particular analytical solution of the two coupled wave equations. The intensity ratio between the two beams at which solitary propagation occurs is close to the theoretical value, and the observed phenomena are consistent with numerical simulations of the experiment

Keywords

focusing; light propagation; optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; optical waveguide theory; 1064 nm; 532 nm; IR; bright spatial soliton pair; coupled wave equations; cross-phase modulation; dark spatial soliton pair; focusing type; homogeneous Kerr medium; intensity ratio; self-guided propagation; simultaneous propagation; solitary propagation; soliton pair; spatial solitary waves; Helium; Numerical simulation; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Partial differential equations; Schrodinger equation; Shape; Solitons; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.166467

Filename

166467