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Izdebskaya YV, Rebling J, Desyatnikov AS, et al. All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons. Opt Express. 2012;20(22):24701-7doi: 10.1364/OE.20.024701.
Izdebskaya, Y. V., Rebling, J., Desyatnikov, A. S., Assanto, G., & Kivshar, Y. S. (2012). All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons. Optics express, 20(22), 24701-7. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.024701
Izdebskaya, Ya V, et al. "All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons." Optics express vol. 20,22 (2012): 24701-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.024701
Izdebskaya YV, Rebling J, Desyatnikov AS, Assanto G, Kivshar YS. All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons. Opt Express. 2012 Oct 22;20(22):24701-7. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.024701. PMID: 23187233.
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Opt Express. 2012 Oct 22;20(22):24701-7. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.024701.

All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons.

Optics express

Ya V Izdebskaya, J Rebling, A S Desyatnikov, G Assanto, Yu S Kivshar

Affiliations

  1. Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. [email protected]

PMID: 23187233 DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024701

Abstract

We investigate a power tunable junction formed by two interacting spatial solitons self-trapped in nematic liquid crystals. By launching a counter-propagating copolarized probe we assess the guided-wave behavior induced by the solitons and demonstrate a novel all-optical switch. Varying soliton power the probe gets trapped into one or two or three guided-waves by the soliton-induced index perturbation, an effect supported by the nonlocal nonlinearity.

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