Spatial soliton formation in photonic crystal fibers
Optics Express, Vol. 11, Issue 5, pp. 452-459 (2003)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.11.000452
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Abstract
We demonstrate the existence of spatial soliton solutions in photonic crystal fibers (PCF’s). These guided localized nonlinear waves appear as a result of the balance between the linear and nonlinear diffraction properties of the inhomogeneous photonic crystal cladding. The spatial soliton is realized self-consistently as the fundamental mode of the effective fiber defined simultaneously by the PCF linear and the self-induced nonlinear refractive indices. It is also shown that the photonic crystal cladding is able to stabilize these solutions, which would be unstable otherwise if the medium was entirely homogeneous.
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OCIS Codes
(060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
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History
Original Manuscript: January 30, 2003
Revised Manuscript: February 26, 2003
Published: March 10, 2003
Citation
Albert Ferrando, Mario Zacares, Pedro Fernandez de Cordoba, Daniele Binosi, and Juan Monsoriu, "Spatial soliton formation in photonic crystal fibers," Opt. Express 11, 452-459 (2003)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-11-5-452
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