Title :
Steerable optical waveguides formed by bright spatial solitons in AlGaAs
Author :
Mamyshev, P.V. ; Villeneuve, A. ; Stegeman, G.I. ; Aitchison, J.S.
Author_Institution :
Center for Res. & Educ. in Opt. & Lasers, Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL
fDate :
4/29/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors show theoretically and experimentally that the propagation direction of bright spatial solitons can be easily controlled by spatially varying the phase across the soliton at its input into the nonlinear medium, in this case an AlGaAs slab waveguide. The advantages of bright solitons over dark solitons for steerable waveguides are discussed
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; nonlinear optics; optical solitons; optical waveguides; AlGaAs; AlGaAs slab waveguide; bright spatial solitons; nonlinear medium; propagation direction; spatial phase variation; steerable optical waveguides;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940469
