Title

Effect Of Nonlinearity On Adiabatic Evolution Of Light

Abstract

We investigate the effect of nonlinearity in a system described by an adiabatically evolving Hamiltonian. Experiments are conducted in a three-core waveguide structure that is adiabatically varying with distance, in analogy to the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage process in atomic physics. In the linear regime, the system exhibits an adiabatic power transfer between two waveguides which are not directly coupled, with negligible power recorded in the intermediate coupling waveguide. In the presence of nonlinearity the adiabatic light passage is found to critically depend on the excitation power. We show how this effect is related to the destruction of the dark state formed in this configuration. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

Publication Date

11-5-2008

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Volume

101

Issue

19

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.193901

Socpus ID

55849139785 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/55849139785

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