Switching with vortex beams in nonlinear concentric couplers

doi:10.1364/OE.15.012916

Optics Express

Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
Vol. 15, Iss. 20 — Oct. 1, 2007
pp: 12916–12921

Switching with vortex beams in nonlinear concentric couplers

José R. Salgueiro and Yuri S. Kivshar »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 20, pp. 12916-12921 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.012916

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Abstract

We demonstrate that a concentric ring coupler can be employed for nonlinear switching of the angular momentum of light carried by an optical vortex. We find different types of stationary vortex states in the nonlinear coupler and study coupling of both power and momentum of an optical vortex launched into one of the rings, demonstrating that the switching takes place well below the collapse threshold. The switching is more effective for the inner-ring excitation since it triggers more sharply and for the powers low enough to avoid the vortex instability and breakup.

OCIS Codes
(060.1810) Fiber optics and optical communications : Buffers, couplers, routers, switches, and multiplexers
(190.3270) Nonlinear optics : Kerr effect

ToC Category:
Nonlinear Optics

History
Original Manuscript: July 20, 2007
Revised Manuscript: September 4, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: September 18, 2007
Published: September 24, 2007

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José R. Salgueiro and Yuri S. Kivshar, "Switching with vortex beams in nonlinear concentric couplers," Opt. Express 15, 12916-12921 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-20-12916

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Chen, Z.
Djaloshinski, L.
Frantzeskakis, D. J.
Harris, J. H.
Heiblum, M.
Hoq, Q. E.
Kartashov, Y. V.
Kevrekidis, P. G.
Malomed, B. A.
Orenstein, M.
Torner, L.
Vysloukh, V. A.
Wang, X.

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

L. Djaloshinski and M. Orenstein, "Disk and ring microcavity lasers and their concentric coupling," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 35, 737-744 (1999). [CrossRef]
M. Heiblum and J. H. Harris, "Analysis of curved optical waveguides by conformal transformation," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 11, 75-83 (1975). [CrossRef]

Phys. Lett. A

Q. E. Hoq, P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and B. A. Malomed, "Ring-shaped solitons in a dartboard photonic lattice," Phys. Lett. A 341, 341-155 (2006).

Phys. Rev. Lett.

Y. V. Kartashov, V. A. Vysloukh, and L. Torner, "Rotary solitons in Bessel optical lattices," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093904-4 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
X. Wang, Z. Chen, and P. G. Kevrekidis, "Observation of discrete solitons and soliton rotation in optically induced periodic ring lattices," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 083,904 (2006). [PubMed]

Other

M. S. Soskin and M. V. Vasnetsov, "Singular optics," in Progress in Optics, E. Wolf, ed., vol. 42, p. 219 (North-Holand, Amsterdam, 2001).
A. S. Desyatnikov, Yu. S. Kivshar, and L. Torner, "Optical vortices and vortex solitons," in Progress in Optics, E. Wolf, ed., vol. 47, pp. 291-391 (North-Holand, Amsterdam, 2005).
Yu. S. Kivshar and G. P. Agrawal, Optical Solitons: From Fibers to Photonic Crystals (Academic Press, San Diego, 2003), 520 pp.
N. N. Akhmediev and A. Ankiewicz, Solitons: Nonlinear Pulses and Beams (Chapman & Hall, Cornwall, 1997).
J. F. Nye, Natural Focusing and Fine Structure of Light: Caustics and Wave Dislocations (Taylor & Francis, 1999).

2006, Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett.
2006, Hoq, Phys. Lett. A
2004, Kartashov, Phys. Rev. Lett.
1999, Djaloshinski, IEEE J. Quantum Electron.
1975, Heiblum, IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

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