Localized structures of light in nonlinear devices with intracavity photonic bandgap material

Author

Vladimirov, Andrei G. ; Skryabin, Dmitry V. ; Tlidi, Mustapha

Author_Institution

Weierstr ass Inst. for Appl. Anal. & Stochastics, Berlin

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In our communication, we describe the stability properties and bifurcations of the Bragg cavity solitons in a passive optical device. We consider a model of an externally pumped wide-aperture Kerr cavity with intracavity medium characterized by the transverse refractive index modulation.

Keywords

bifurcation; coupled mode analysis; optical Kerr effect; optical bistability; optical materials; optical solitons; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; refractive index; Bragg cavity solitons; asymmetric soliton; bifurcations; bistability behavior; coupled-mode approach; dissipative solitons; externally pumped wide-aperture Kerr cavity; intracavity photonic bandgap material; modulational instability; nonlinear devices; passive optical device; photonic crystal materials; stability properties; stable soliton; transverse refractive index modulation; unstable soliton; Bifurcation; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical films; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical solitons; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals; Refractive index;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386995

Filename

4386995