Soliton switching in properly tailored nonlinear directional couplers

Falk L. Lederer; W. Biehlig; R. Muschall; Lutz Leine

doi:10.1117/12.185099

25 August 1994 Soliton switching in properly tailored nonlinear directional couplers

Falk L. Lederer, W. Biehlig, R. Muschall, Lutz Leine

Proceedings Volume 2212, Linear and Nonlinear Integrated Optics; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185099
Event: Integrated Optoelectronics '94, 1994, Lindau, Germany

Abstract

For the first time, we show that soliton switching in semiconductor nonlinear directional couplers without the detrimental pulse break up can be achieved by properly tailoring the waveguide configuration. In particular, we exploit the unusual dispersion characteristic of Anti-Resonant-Reflecting-Optical Waveguides to overturn the normal group velocity dispersion in semiconductors below half-the-band-gap. The coupled set of modified Nonlinear Schrodinger equations is derived and solved by using the Beam Propagation Method.

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Falk L. Lederer, W. Biehlig, R. Muschall, and Lutz Leine "Soliton switching in properly tailored nonlinear directional couplers", Proc. SPIE 2212, Linear and Nonlinear Integrated Optics, (25 August 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185099

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