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Discrete vector solitons in Kerr nonlinear waveguide arrays

Authors :
Hagai S. Eisenberg
Yaron Silberberg
George I. Stegeman
Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Jared Hudock
J.S. Aitchison
Joachim Meier
Roberto Morandotti
Source :
Postconference Digest Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS..
Publication Year :
2003
Publisher :
IEEE, 2003.

Abstract

We report the first experimental observation of vector discrete solitons. We find that at appropriate power levels two orthogonally polarized beams collapse into a highly confined vector discrete soliton in spite of the presence of energy exchange due to four-wave-mixing.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Postconference Digest Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS.
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........18b7affb881be9063582200dbab228f5
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/qels.2003.238636