Directional coupler using soliton-induced waveguides

Author

Lan, S. ; DelRe, E. ; Chen, Z. ; Shih, M. ; Segev, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

538

Lastpage

539

Abstract

Summary form only given. Among the various types of spatial solitons, photorefractive solitons appear to be rather unique because they form at /spl mu/Watt optical power levels and the photorefractive effects are wavelength-sensitive, which means that a soliton formed by a low power beam can guide an intense beam of a less photosensitive wavelength. In this paper we propose and demonstrate experimentally that we can use two photorefractive soliton-induced waveguides to make a directional coupler.

Keywords

optical directional couplers; optical solitons; optical waveguides; photorefractive materials; /spl mu/Watt optical power levels; SrBaNb/sub 2/O/sub 6/; intense beam guiding; less photosensitive wavelength; low power beam; optical directional coupler; photorefractive effects; photorefractive soliton-induced waveguides; photorefractive solitons; soliton-induced waveguides; spatial solitons; wavelength-sensitive; Delay; Directional couplers; Laser beams; Optical beams; Optical control; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Photorefractive effect; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.834563

Filename

834563