An optochemically organized nonlinear waveguide lattice with primitive cubic symmetry

Opt Express. 2013 Feb 25;21(4):4205-14. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.004205.

Abstract

We describe the first example of a primitive cubic lattice assembled spontaneously from three mutually orthogonal and intersecting arrays of cylindrical, multimode waveguides. The lattice is generated in a single, room-temperature step with separate (mutually incoherent) incandescent light bulbs. To demonstrate its potential as a nonlinear photonic lattice, we generated a self-trapped lattice beam of incoherent white light. These two findings open entirely new experimental opportunities to study the behavior of spatially and temporally incoherent, polychromatic lattice solitons in 3-D Bravais lattices.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Lighting / instrumentation*
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Refractometry / instrumentation*
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance / instrumentation*