Mobile light bullets in curved waveguide arrays

M. Matuszewski*, A. A. Sukhorukov, I. L. Garanovich

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    Abstract

    In this work, we predict, for the first time to our knowledge, that stable broad spatio-temporal solitons can exist in arrays of periodically curved optical waveguides, and such discrete light bullets are mobile and can move across the array. We consider propagation of light pulses in a one-dimensional array of coupled optical waveguides, where waveguide axes are periodically curved in the longitudinal propagation direction z. We find approximate solutions of the propagation equation using the variational technique, where we assume a Gaussian shape of the spatial-temporal soliton. Our results can be generalized to fully three-dimensional light bullets in a two-dimensional waveguide array setting.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference
    Place of PublicationOnline
    PublisherIEEE Xplore
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4244-4079-5
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4244-4080-1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    EventCLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference - Munich, Germany
    Duration: 14 Jun 200919 Jun 2009

    Publication series

    NameCLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference

    Conference

    ConferenceCLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityMunich
    Period14/06/0919/06/09

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