Title

Radiation Related Polarization Instability Of Fast Kerr Spatial Solitons In Slab Waveguides

Abstract

We report the observation of a power-dependent polarization conversion from a fast spatial soliton-like beam into the orthogonal polarization in an AlGaAs slab waveguide at power levels below which the nonlinear index change becomes comparable to the birefringence. The slow soliton, however, shows no polarization conversion. We interpret these results in terms of the previously predicted polarization instability of a fast soliton into orthogonally polarized radiation. The experimental results are in qualitative agreement with theory.

Publication Date

12-15-2000

Publication Title

Optics Communications

Volume

186

Issue

4-6

Number of Pages

335-341

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(00)01079-8

Socpus ID

0034428716 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0034428716

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