title: Two-soliton interaction in the vicinity of a defect inside a fiber Bragg grating and its application for obtaining an all-optical memory.
abstract: We study the interaction between two Bragg solitons in the vicinity of a defect inside a fiber Bragg grating. A soliton that is trapped in the defect can be released by launching a second soliton. The effect can be used to obtain an all-optical memory that is not strongly sensitive to the phase and the timing arrival of the solitons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. yuvalsh@tx.technion.ac.il
authors.forename: Yuval P
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Shapira
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horowitz