All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons

Ya V. Izdebskaya; J. Rebling; A. S. Desyatnikov; G. Assanto; Yu S. Kivshar

doi:10.1364/OE.20.024701

All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons

Ya V. Izdebskaya^*, J. Rebling, A. S. Desyatnikov, G. Assanto, Yu S. Kivshar

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We investigate a power tunable junction formed by two interacting spatial solitons self-trapped in nematic liquid crystals. By launching a counter-propagating copolarized probe we assess the guided-wave behavior induced by the solitons and demonstrate a novel all-optical switch. Varying soliton power the probe gets trapped into one or two or three guided-waves by the soliton-induced index perturbation, an effect supported by the nonlocal nonlinearity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	24701-24707
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	20
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.024701
Publication status	Published - 22 Oct 2012

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