ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING BY SPATIAL WALKOFF COMPENSATION AND SOLITARY-WAVE LOCKING

Authors
TORRUELLAS WE ASSANTO G LAWRENCE BL FUERST RA STEGEMAN GI
Citation
We. Torruellas et al., ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING BY SPATIAL WALKOFF COMPENSATION AND SOLITARY-WAVE LOCKING, Applied physics letters, 68(11), 1996, pp. 1449-1451
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
68
Issue
11
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1449 - 1451
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1996)68:11<1449:ASBSWC>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We demonstrate a novel approach to phase insensitive, all-optical stee ring and switching based on an intensity-induced change in the propaga tion direction of multidimensional spatial solitary waves in bulk, bir efringent, quadratic nonlinear media. Our demonstration is based on se cond-harmonic generation in a KTP crystal. Compensation for the latera l displacements due to walkoff in SHG is observed. (C) 1996 American I nstitute of Physics.