TY - GEN
T1 - All optical effects in nonlinear photonic crystals
AU - Padowicz, Ayelet Ganany
AU - Dolev, Ido
AU - Ellenbogen, Tal
AU - Sheng, Yan
AU - Koynov, Kaloian
AU - Arie, Ady
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Nonlinear photonic crystals are materials in which the second order susceptibility is modulated, while the linear susceptibility remains constant. These structures are often used in nonlinear optics applications for compensating the phase mismatch between interacting waves. The progress in modulation techniques, mainly by electric field poling of ferroelectric crystals, enables to explore new applications, based on all-optical control of the phase, amplitude and polarization of the nonlinearly generated waves. This enables the realization of functional nonlinear optical devices, such as nonlinear lenses, switches, polarization rotators, deflectors and beam shapers. Here we will discuss in detail two applications - all optical polarization switching in a cascaded nonlinear photonic quasicrystal, and the generation and manipulation of accelerating Airy beams in two-dimensionally modulated crystals.
AB - Nonlinear photonic crystals are materials in which the second order susceptibility is modulated, while the linear susceptibility remains constant. These structures are often used in nonlinear optics applications for compensating the phase mismatch between interacting waves. The progress in modulation techniques, mainly by electric field poling of ferroelectric crystals, enables to explore new applications, based on all-optical control of the phase, amplitude and polarization of the nonlinearly generated waves. This enables the realization of functional nonlinear optical devices, such as nonlinear lenses, switches, polarization rotators, deflectors and beam shapers. Here we will discuss in detail two applications - all optical polarization switching in a cascaded nonlinear photonic quasicrystal, and the generation and manipulation of accelerating Airy beams in two-dimensionally modulated crystals.
KW - Accelerating Airy beams
KW - Nonlinear optics
KW - Photonic crystals
KW - Polarization switching
KW - Quasi phase matching
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77957267117&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549090
DO - 10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549090
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781424477975
T3 - 2010 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2010
BT - 2010 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2010
T2 - 2010 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2010
Y2 - 27 June 2010 through 1 July 2010
ER -