All-optical switching and amplification of discrete vector solitons in nonlinear cubic birefringent waveguide arrays

Rodrigo A. Vicencio; Mario I. Molina; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1364/OL.29.002905

All-optical switching and amplification of discrete vector solitons in nonlinear cubic birefringent waveguide arrays

Rodrigo A. Vicencio, Mario I. Molina, Yuri S. Kivshar

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We study all-optical switching based on the dynamic properties of discrete vector solitons in waveguide arrays. We employ the concept of polarization mode instability and demonstrate simultaneous switching and amplification of a weak signal by a strong pump of the opposite polarization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2905-2907
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	29
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.29.002905
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2004

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All-optical switching and amplification of discrete vector solitons in nonlinear cubic birefringent waveguide arrays

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