Title

All-Optical Spatial Switching Of Solitary Waves In Ktp

Abstract

The recent demonstration of large nonlinear optical phase shifts in quadratic non-linear materials, and the observation of spatial solitary waves have made possible several new applications such as phase-controlled transistors and solitary wave dragging. The solitary waves form above a threshold power and are a result of strongly coupled fundamental and second-harmonic waves, which propagate without either diffraction or walk-off. Steering of these waves has been demonstrated via interferometrically precise control of the relative phase between fundamental and second-harmonic beams. This paper demonstrates all-optical spatial steering based on solitary-wave formation utilizing a type II frequency-degenerate process, which leads to phase-insensitive switching at powers above the self-guiding threshold in bulk KTP crystal.

Publication Date

1-1-1996

Publication Title

Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS

Number of Pages

177-178

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0029709305 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0029709305

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