Spatiotemporal control of light by Bloch-mode dispersion in multi-core fibers

Per Dalgaard Rasmussen; Andrey A Sukhorukov; Dragomir N Neshev; Wieslaw Krolikowski; Ole Bang; Jesper Laegsgaard; Yuri S Kivshar

doi:10.1364/oe.16.005878

Spatiotemporal control of light by Bloch-mode dispersion in multi-core fibers

Opt Express. 2008 Apr 14;16(8):5878-91. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.005878.

Authors

Per Dalgaard Rasmussen¹, Andrey A Sukhorukov, Dragomir N Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Ole Bang, Jesper Laegsgaard, Yuri S Kivshar

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. pdr@com.dtu.dk

PMID: 18542700
DOI: 10.1364/oe.16.005878

Abstract

We study theoretically the dispersion properties of Bloch modes and nonlinearly-induced defect states in two-dimensional waveguide arrays. We define the conditions for achieving anomalous group-velocity dispersion and discuss possibilities for generation of spatiotemporal solitons.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computer Simulation
Computer-Aided Design*
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Fiber Optic Technology / instrumentation*
Light
Models, Theoretical*
Scattering, Radiation