Nonlinear guiding by optical vortex soliton pair

Author

Law, C.T. ; Zhang, Xiaobing ; Swartzlander, G.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee, WI, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

23-28 May 1992

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Summary form only given. The guiding of a light beam with a waveguide induced by another beam propagating in the same nonlinear medium has been investigated by various research groups. The guiding phenomena can be based on a host of nonlinearities. Particularly for third order nonlinearity, the usual experimental configuration requires a strong beam to guide a weak beam. In this talk, we will consider the guiding of a high intensity bright beam by an optical vortex soliton (OVS) pair in a self-defocusing Kerr medium. We will discuss the effect of a strong guided beam on spatial switching and directional coupling with the OVS pair.

Keywords

optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; optical waveguide theory; dark cores; directional coupling; helical phase front; high intensity bright beam; nonlinear guiding; optical vortex soliton pair; optimum beam size; phase ramp; self-defocusing Kerr medium; spatial switching; strong guided beam; third order nonlinearity; Atomic beams; Atomic measurements; Clocks; Frequency; Laser excitation; Optical scattering; Optical vortices; Particle scattering; Solitons; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1999. QELS '99. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-576-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QELS.1999.807360

Filename

807360