Steering and switching of soliton-like beams via interaction in a nanocolloid with positive polarizability.

Autor: Yadira Salazar-Romero M, Ayala YA, Brambila E, Lopez-Peña LA, Sciberras L, Minzoni AA, Terborg RA, Torres JP, Volke-Sepúlveda K
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics letters [Opt Lett] 2017 Jul 01; Vol. 42 (13), pp. 2487-2490.
DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.002487
Abstrakt: We unveil different regimes for the interaction between two orthogonally polarized soliton-like beams in a colloidal suspension of nanoparticles with positive polarizability. The interaction is always attractive. However, it noticeably changes as a function of the angle and the power distribution between the input beams. For small angles, both interacting solitons fuse into a single entity, whose propagation direction can be continuously steered. As the interaction angle increases, the resulting self-collimated beam can be practically switched between two positions when the power imbalance between the beams is changed. For interaction angles larger than ∼10°, the result is no longer a single emerging soliton when the input power is balanced between the two beams.
Databáze: MEDLINE