Title :
Navigating spatial solitons arrays using nonlinear waveguides
Author :
Scheuer, Jacob ; Orensfein, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We show that a stationary and stable propagation of soliton arrays can be achieved by allowing anti-phase solitons to propagate in a nonlinear waveguide, were the repulsive forces between the solitons are counteracted by the potential barriers produced by interfaces of the nonlinear waveguide. This is a step towards practical application of spatial solitons for spatial coding and memories. We demonstrate the numerical and analytical propagation model for the generic case of two coherent anti-phase solitons in a waveguide with Kerr non-linearity. Larger soliton arrays were studied as well and will be reported
Keywords :
Schrodinger equation; encoding; optical Kerr effect; optical arrays; optical solitons; optical storage; optical waveguide theory; optical waveguides; Kerr non-linearity; anti-phase solitons; coherent anti-phase solitons; navigating spatial solitons arrays; nonlinear waveguide interfaces; nonlinear waveguides; optical memories; potential barriers; repulsive forces; soliton arrays; spatial coding; stationary stable propagation; Analytical models; Boundary conditions; Jacobian matrices; Navigation; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear equations; Optimized production technology; Schrodinger equation; Solid modeling; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Rio Grande
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5947-X
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2000.890743
