title: Incoherent blocker soliton interactions in Kerr waveguide arrays.
abstract: We have observed the incoherent interaction between a highly confined (blocker) soliton and wide, moving signal beams of a different wavelength in a one-dimensional discrete Kerr medium. Digital switching of the blocker solitons to successive adjacent channels was measured with increasing signal power via both one and two cascaded interactions in an AlGaAs waveguide array, operations equivalent to a reconfigurable three-output router.
authors.affiliation: College of Optics & Photonics, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers and Florida Photonics Center of Excellence, University of Central Florida, Orlando 32816, USA. joachim_meier@gmx.net
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Stegeman
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Christodoulides
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morandotti
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salamo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sorel
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Silberberg
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Aitchison