All-optical switching by spatial walkoff compensation and solitary-wave locking

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作者
Torruellas, WE [1 ]
Assanto, G [1 ]
Lawrence, BL [1 ]
Fuerst, RA [1 ]
Stegeman, GI [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ROME, DIPARTIMENTO INGN ELECTTRON TERZA, I-00146 ROME, ITALY
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10.1063/1.116250
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We demonstrate a novel approach to phase insensitive, all-optical steering and switching based on an intensity-induced change in the propagation direction of multidimensional spatial solitary waves in bulk, birefringent, quadratic nonlinear media. Our demonstration is based on second-harmonic generation in a KTP crystal. Compensation for the lateral displacements due to walkoff in SHG is observed. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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