title: Slow light, induced dispersion, enhanced nonlinearity, and optical solitons in a resonator-array waveguide.
abstract: We describe an optical transmission line that consists of an array of wavelength-scale optical disk resonators coupled to an optical waveguide. Such a structure leads to exotic optical characteristics, including ultraslow group velocities of propagation, enhanced optical nonlinearities, and large dispersion with a controllable magnitude and sign. This device supports soliton propagation, which can be described by a generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: E  Heebner
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: Q-Han
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Park