Title :
The Talbot effect and the excitation of soliton arrays
Author :
Minardi, Stefano ; Arrighi, Gianluca ; Di Trapani, Paolo ; Varanavicius, Arunas ; Piskarskas, Algis ; Petrov, Dimitri ; Torner, Lluis
Author_Institution :
Ist. Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Univ. dell´´Insurbia, Como, Italy
Abstract :
We show that various types of all-optical switches can be obtained by exploiting both the fractional Talbot effect and the excitation of large arrays of parametric spatial solitons. Experimental and numerical data are presented.
Keywords :
Talbot effect; high-speed optical techniques; optical solitons; optical switches; Talbot effect; all-optical switches; parametric spatial solitons; picosecond pulses; soliton arrays; Solitons; Switches; Talbot effect; Utility programs;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7733-8
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2003.1313988
