All-optical switching and amplification of discrete vector solitons in nonlinear cubic birefringent waveguide arrays
Optics Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 24, pp. 2905-2907 (2004)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.29.002905
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Abstract
We study all-optical switching based on the dynamic properties of discrete vector solitons in waveguide arrays. We employ the concept of polarization mode instability and demonstrate simultaneous switching and amplification of a weak signal by a strong pump of the opposite polarization.
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OCIS Codes
(190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(190.5530) Nonlinear optics : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
Citation
Rodrigo A. Vicencio, Mario
I. Molina, and Yuri S. Kivshar, "All-optical switching and amplification of discrete vector solitons
in nonlinear cubic birefringent waveguide arrays," Opt. Lett. 29, 2905-2907 (2004)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-29-24-2905
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