Optical devices based on spatial bright solitons with controllable outputs

Author

Andrade-Lucio, J.A. ; Ibarra-Manzano, O.G. ; Alvarado-Méndez, E. ; Estudillo-Ayala, J.M. ; Rojas-Laguna, R. ; Torres-Cisneros, M. ; Alvarez-Jaime, J.A. ; Gutiérrez-Martín, H.G. ; Ruiz-Pinales, J.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Mech., Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Guanajuato, Salamanca

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

16-20 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

70

Abstract

Spatial optical solitons have been suggested for all optical guiding and switching in nonlinear-optical media. One of their more promising characteristics for practical applications in photonics are the structures formed by intersecting waveguides such as X or Y junctions. Such intersecting waveguides can be implemented by colliding two or more solitons. Recently collision between mutually incoherent 2D spatial solitons in a SBN crystal was reported, interacting forces between one-dimensional spatial solitons in parallel propagation were observed, and the fusion and birth of 2D spatial solitons caused by the collision and annihilation of photorefractive solitons was reported. Other techniques for optical switching can be implemented using effects like total internal reflection of solitons in an interface formed by a nonlinear and a linear medium

Keywords

light reflection; nonlinear media; optical solitons; optical switches; optical waveguides; photorefractive materials; SBN; SBN crystal; SrBaNb2O6; incoherent 2D spatial soliton collision; nonlinear-optical media; optical devices; optical guiding; optical switching; photonics; photorefractive solitons; spatial bright soliton; total internal reflection; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical propagation; Optical reflection; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Photorefractive materials; Waveguide junctions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers, 2003. Proceedings of CAOL 2003. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Alushta, Crimea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7948-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAOL.2003.1251267

Filename

1251267