Beam interactions in one-dimensional saturable waveguide arrays
Optics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
The interaction between two parallel beams in one-dimensional discrete saturable systems has been investigated using lithium niobate nonlinear waveguide arrays. When the beams are separated by one channel and in-phase it is possible to observe soliton fusion at low power levels. This new result is confirmed numerically. By increasing the power, soliton-like propagation of weakly-coupled beams occurs. When the beams are out-of-phase the most interesting result is the existence of oscillations which resemble the recently discovered Tamm oscillations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0607028,
title = {Beam interactions in one-dimensional saturable waveguide arrays},
author = {Milutin Stepic and Eugene Smirnov and Christian E. Rueter and Vladimir Shandarov and Detlef Kip},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0607028},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E