Observation of Manakov spatial solitons in AlGaAs planar waveguides

被引:224
作者
Kang, JU
Stegeman, GI
Aitchison, JS
Akhmediev, N
机构
[1] UNIV GLASGOW,DEPT ELECT & ELECTR ENGN,GLASGOW G12 8LT,LANARK,SCOTLAND
[2] AUSTRALIAN NATL UNIV,CTR OPT SCI,CANBERRA,ACT 0200,AUSTRALIA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3699
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We suggest and implement a method for observing Manakov spatial solitons in crystals. We show experimentally that the propagation behavior of mutually trapped, orthogonally polarized beams in AlGaAs planar waveguides is identical to that of a fundamental (single polarization) soliton beam with the same total power.
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页码:3699 / 3702
页数:4
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