DocumentCode :
2104175
Title :
Solitons phenomena in highly nonlocal media: From soliton wiring and surface solitons to random-phase solitons and controlling solitons from afar
Author :
Rotschild, Carmel ; Alfassi, Barak ; Manela, Ofer ; Schwartz, Tal ; Barak, Assaf ; Segev, Mordechai ; Cohen, Oren ; Xu, Zhiyong ; Kartashov, Yaroslav ; Torner, Lluis ; Christodoulides, Demetri N.
Author_Institution :
Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
fYear :
2007
fDate :
21-25 Oct. 2007
Firstpage :
618
Lastpage :
619
Abstract :
Solitons are self-localized wave-packets arising from a robust balance between dispersion and nonlinearity. They are a universal phenomenon, displaying properties typically associated with particles. Until recently, the vast majority of soliton-research was focused on solitons in nonlinear media with a local response. As such, the interactions between solitons were limited to "nearest neighbors" at close proximity. This feature poses an upper limit to the complexity of a system constructed from solitons as building blocks, for example, a soliton-based computing scheme. In addition, for scalar (single-field) solitons, in the integrable self-focusing Kerr system as well as in all saturable nonlinearities, only the simplest solitons are stable: those possessing a bell-shape structure.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; highly nonlocal media; integrable self-focusing Kerr system; nonlinear media; random-phase solitons; saturable nonlinearities; scalar solitons; self-localized wave-packets; soliton wiring; solitons phenomena; surface solitons; Centralized control; Nonlinear optics; Optical solitons; Optical surface waves; Optical vortices; Optimized production technology; Physics; Random media; Surface waves; Wiring;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
ISSN :
1092-8081
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382558
Filename :
4382558
Link To Document :
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