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All-optical switching of a signal by a pair of interacting nematicons

Izdebskaya, Ya V; Rebling, J; Desyatnikov, A S; Assanto, G; Kivshar, Yuri

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We investigate a power tunable junction formed by two interacting spatial solitons self-trapped in nematic liquid crystals. By launching a counter-propagating copolarized probe we assess the guided-wave behavior induced by the solitons and demonstrate a novel all-optical switch. Varying soliton power the probe gets trapped into one or two or three guided-waves by the soliton-induced index perturbation, an effect supported by the nonlocal nonlinearity.

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Date published: 2012-10-22
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/101145
Source: Optics express
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024701

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