title: Efficient method for launching in-gap solitons in fiber Bragg gratings using a two-segment apodization profile.
abstract: We theoretically demonstrate what is a new method for efficient launching of in-gap solitons in fiber Bragg gratings. The method is based on generating a soliton outside the grating bandgap. Then, the soliton is adiabatically coupled into the bandgap by using its particlelike behavior. We compare our method to a previously published launching scheme that is based on generating the soliton directly within the grating bandgap. When using low-intensity incident pulses, the transmission efficiency of our method is three times higher than that of the previously published scheme.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. eeamir@tx.technion.ac.il
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horowitz