Evolution of bright to dark photonic lattices in nonlinear medium type Kerr

Author

Alvarado-Méndez, E. ; Trejo-Durán, M. ; Andrade-Lucio, J.A. ; Estudillo-Ayala, J.M. ; Rojas-Laguna, R. ; Vargas-Rodríguez, E. ; Aviña-Cervantes, J.G. ; Sukhoivanov, I. ; Guryev, I.

Author_Institution

Fac. de Ing. Mec., Electr. y Electron., Univ. de Guanajuato, Guanajuato

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 29 2008-Oct. 4 2008

Firstpage

390

Lastpage

392

Abstract

In this work we present the formation of dark photonic lattices in negative nonlinear medium. Bright periodic lattices are generated by interference technique and propagated through 1 cm of length of nonlinear medium (R6G with acetone). The dependence with the laser (Ar) power and the geometry selected are showed. Three very interesting cases were obtained: two dimensional dark photonic lattices (2D), one dimensional dark photonic lattices, and (1D), and 2D and 1D combination effects. Our experimental results are accord with numerical simulations.

Keywords

nonlinear media; nonlinear optics; optical Kerr effect; optical lattices; organic compounds; 1D dark photonic lattices; 2D dark photonic lattices; R6G; acetone; bright photonic lattices; interference technique; laser power; negative nonlinear medium; nonlinear medium type Kerr; Argon; Diffraction; Interference; Lattices; Lighting control; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Periodic structures; Photonic crystals; Refractive index; nonlinear optics; periodic structures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers, 2008. CAOL 2008. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Crimea

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1973-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1974-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAOL.2008.4671853

Filename

4671853