Title

Spatial switching of solitary waves in KTP

Abstract

The experimental demonstrations of 2-dimensional spatial solitary wave propagation and the applications of these beams to practical problems of spatial beam clean-up and all-optical switching are presented. The propagation of intense beams in a nonlinear material is evolutionary in that various input beams evolve into solitary waves as they propagate. The phenomenon can be used to reshape elliptical beams into clean circular profiles, independently of the walk-off direction. The method works well for ellipticities from 1.5:1 to 8:1. The spatial walk off of solitary waves propagating in a KTP crystal is used to control the direction of propagation and demonstrate `on/off' switching as the beam steers through an aperture placed at the KTP axis.

Publication Date

12-1-1996

Publication Title

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

Volume

2

Number of Pages

16-17

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0030384369 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0030384369

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