Photon trapping and transfer with solitons

We show, numerically, that a single photon trapped by a soliton in a Kerr nonlinear medium can be transferred from one soliton to another when the captor soliton undergoes collision with a second soliton. Soliton collisions can also be used in this way to realize a beam splitter, as well as a mode-s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Steiglitz, Ken, Rand, Darren A.
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51045