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Reconfigurable directional couplers and junctions optically induced by nondiffracting Bessel beams

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2009-11-11 v1 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We put forward the concept of reconfigurable structures optically induced by mutually incoherent nondiffracting Bessel beams in Kerr-type nonlinear media. We address collinear couplers and X-junctions, and show how the switching properties of such structures can be tuned by varying the intensity of the Bessel beams.

Cite

@article{arxiv.nlin/0501029,
  title  = {Reconfigurable directional couplers and junctions optically induced by nondiffracting Bessel beams},
  author = {Zhiyong Xu and Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor A. Vysloukh and Lluis Torner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0501029},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages,4 figures. To appear in Optics Letters