IS 2-PHOTON ABSORPTION A LIMITATION TO DARK SOLITON SWITCHING

Authors
YANG XP KIVSHAR YS LUTHERDAVIES B ANDERSEN DR
Citation
Xp. Yang et al., IS 2-PHOTON ABSORPTION A LIMITATION TO DARK SOLITON SWITCHING, Optics letters, 19(5), 1994, pp. 344-346
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
19
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
344 - 346
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1994)19:5<344:I2AALT>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
It is shown that two-photon absorption does not always place a fundame ntal limitation on soliton devices: The steering angle, the key charac teristic of switching devices based on the propagation of dark spatial solitons, is almost preserved as the intensity of the background wave decays in the presence of weak two-photon absorption.