Control and steering of phase domain walls

doi:10.1364/OPEX.13.003631

Optics Express

Editor: Michael Duncan
Vol. 13, Iss. 10 — May. 16, 2005
pp: 3631–3636

Control and steering of phase domain walls

Adolfo Esteban-Martín, Victor Taranenko, Eugenio Roldán, and Germán de Valcárcel »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 13, Issue 10, pp. 3631-3636 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.003631

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Abstract

We show experimentally the feasibility of optically controlled location, individual addressing/erasure and steering of phase domain walls by injection of coherent addressing pulses into a phase-locked four-wave-mixing photorefractive oscillator.

OCIS Codes
(190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
(190.4420) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, transverse effects in
(210.4680) Optical data storage : Optical memories

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Original Manuscript: April 5, 2005
Revised Manuscript: April 29, 2005
Published: May 16, 2005

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Adolfo Esteban-Martín, Victor Taranenko, Eugenio Roldán, and Germán de Valcárcel, "Control and steering of phase domain walls," Opt. Express 13, 3631-3636 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-13-10-3631

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K. Staliunas and V.J. Sánchez-Morcillo, Transverse Patterns in Nonlinear Optical Resonators, (Springer, Berlín, 2003).
N.N.Rosanov and G.V.Khodova, "Autosolitons in bistable interferometers," Opt. Spectrosc. 65, 449 (1988).
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R.Gallego, M.San Miguel, and R.Toral, �??Self-Similar Domain Growth, Localized Structures, and labyrinthine Patterns in Vectorial Kerr Resonators,�?? Phys. Rev. E. 61, 2241 (2000). [CrossRef]
V.J. Sánchez-Morcillo, I. Pérez-Arjona, F. Silva, G.J. de Valcárcel, and E. Roldán, �??Vectorial Kerr-cavity Solitons,�?? Opt. Lett. 25, 957 (2000). [CrossRef]
V.B. Taranenko, K. Staliunas, and C.O. Weiss, �??Spatial soliton laser: localized structures in a laser with a saturable absorber in a self-imaging resonator,�?? Phys. Rev. A 56, 1582 (1997). [CrossRef]
G. Slekys, K.Staliunas, and C.O. Weiss, �??Spatial Solitons in Optical Photorefractive Oscillators with saturable Absorber,�?? Opt. Commun. 149, 113 (1998). [CrossRef]
B. Schäpers, M. Feldmann, T. Ackemann, and W. Lange, �??Interaction of localized structures in an optical pattern forming system,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 748 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
V.B. Taranenko, I. Ganne, R. Kuszelewicz, and C.O. Weiss, �??Patterns and localized structures in bistable semiconductor resonators,�?? Phys. Rev. A 61, 063818 (2000). [CrossRef]
V.B. Taranenko, F.-J. Ahlers, and K. Pierz, �??Coherent switching of semiconductor resonator solitons,�?? Appl. Phys. B 75, 75 (2002). [CrossRef]
S. Barland, J.R. Tredicce, M. Brambilla, L.A. Lugiato, S. Balle, M. Giudici, T. Maggipinto, L. Spinelli, G. Tissoni, T. Knoedl, M. Millerk, and R. Jaeger, �??Cavity solitons as pixels in semiconductor microcavities,�?? Nature 419, 699 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
G.S. McDonald and W.J. Firth, �??Spatial solitary wave optical memory,�?? J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 1328 (1990). [CrossRef]
P. Coullet, J. Lega, B. Houchmanzadeh, and J. Lajzerowicz, �??Breaking chirality in nonequilibrium systems,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 1352 (1990). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Esteban-Martín, V. B. Taranenko, J. García, G. J. de Valcárcel, and Eugenio Roldán, �??Controlled observation of a nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition in a nonlinear optical cavity,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. (to appear); also at <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.PS/0411048.">http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.PS/0411048.</a> [PubMed]
V. B. Taranenko, K. Staliunas, and C. O. Weiss, �??Pattern Formation and Localized Structures in Degenerate Optical Parametric Mixing,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2236 (1998). [CrossRef]
Y. Larionova, U. Peschel, A. Esteban-Martín, J. García-Monreal, and C.O. Weiss, �??Ising and Bloch walls of phase domains in two-dimensional parametric wave mixing,�?? Phys. Rev. A 69, 033803 (2004). [CrossRef]
A. Esteban-Martín, J. García, E. Roldán, V.B. Taranenko, G.J. de Valcárcel, and C.O. Weiss, �??Experimental approach to transverse wavenumber selection in cavity nonlinear optics,�?? Phys. Rev A 69, 033816 (2004). [CrossRef]

Appl. Phys. B

V.B. Taranenko, F.-J. Ahlers, and K. Pierz, �??Coherent switching of semiconductor resonator solitons,�?? Appl. Phys. B 75, 75 (2002). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

G.S. McDonald and W.J. Firth, �??Spatial solitary wave optical memory,�?? J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 1328 (1990). [CrossRef]

Nature

S. Barland, J.R. Tredicce, M. Brambilla, L.A. Lugiato, S. Balle, M. Giudici, T. Maggipinto, L. Spinelli, G. Tissoni, T. Knoedl, M. Millerk, and R. Jaeger, �??Cavity solitons as pixels in semiconductor microcavities,�?? Nature 419, 699 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Commun.

G. Slekys, K.Staliunas, and C.O. Weiss, �??Spatial Solitons in Optical Photorefractive Oscillators with saturable Absorber,�?? Opt. Commun. 149, 113 (1998). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

Opt. Spectrosc.

N.N.Rosanov and G.V.Khodova, "Autosolitons in bistable interferometers," Opt. Spectrosc. 65, 449 (1988).

Phys. Rev A

A. Esteban-Martín, J. García, E. Roldán, V.B. Taranenko, G.J. de Valcárcel, and C.O. Weiss, �??Experimental approach to transverse wavenumber selection in cavity nonlinear optics,�?? Phys. Rev A 69, 033816 (2004). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. A

V.B. Taranenko, I. Ganne, R. Kuszelewicz, and C.O. Weiss, �??Patterns and localized structures in bistable semiconductor resonators,�?? Phys. Rev. A 61, 063818 (2000). [CrossRef]
Y. Larionova, U. Peschel, A. Esteban-Martín, J. García-Monreal, and C.O. Weiss, �??Ising and Bloch walls of phase domains in two-dimensional parametric wave mixing,�?? Phys. Rev. A 69, 033803 (2004). [CrossRef]
V.B. Taranenko, K. Staliunas, and C.O. Weiss, �??Spatial soliton laser: localized structures in a laser with a saturable absorber in a self-imaging resonator,�?? Phys. Rev. A 56, 1582 (1997). [CrossRef]
K. Staliunas and V. J. Sánchez-Morcillo, �??Spatial-Localized Structures in Degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillators,�?? Phys. Rev. A 57, 1454 (1998). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. E.

R.Gallego, M.San Miguel, and R.Toral, �??Self-Similar Domain Growth, Localized Structures, and labyrinthine Patterns in Vectorial Kerr Resonators,�?? Phys. Rev. E. 61, 2241 (2000). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

M.Tlidi, P.Mandel and R.Lefever, �??Localized structures and localized patterns in optical bistability,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 640 (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
B. Schäpers, M. Feldmann, T. Ackemann, and W. Lange, �??Interaction of localized structures in an optical pattern forming system,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 748 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
P. Coullet, J. Lega, B. Houchmanzadeh, and J. Lajzerowicz, �??Breaking chirality in nonequilibrium systems,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 1352 (1990). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Esteban-Martín, V. B. Taranenko, J. García, G. J. de Valcárcel, and Eugenio Roldán, �??Controlled observation of a nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition in a nonlinear optical cavity,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. (to appear); also at <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.PS/0411048.">http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.PS/0411048.</a> [PubMed]
V. B. Taranenko, K. Staliunas, and C. O. Weiss, �??Pattern Formation and Localized Structures in Degenerate Optical Parametric Mixing,�?? Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2236 (1998). [CrossRef]

Other

P. Mandel, Theoretical Problems in Cavity Nonlinear Optics, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997). [CrossRef]
K. Staliunas and V.J. Sánchez-Morcillo, Transverse Patterns in Nonlinear Optical Resonators, (Springer, Berlín, 2003).

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