Electronic control of soliton power transfer in silicon nanocrystal waveguides.
We demonstrate numerically that the power transfer from one polarization component of a (1+ 1)D vector spatial soliton to the other in a birefringent nonlinear medium can be controlled via the electro-optic Kerr effect by varying the externally applied electric field. We show how several all-optical operations involving fundamental vector solitons can be electronically controlled. We also discover that the split-up of the higher-order vector solitons due to the two-photon absorption (TPA) can be suppressed by adjusting the external electric field. The soliton trapping along the slow optical axis is realized by a planar waveguide, filled with a silicon-nanocrystal material. The external electric field is applied along the fast optical axis of the waveguide.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3J2X4 Canada.
Mengdi
M
Li
Sergey A
SA
Ponomarenko
Montasir
M
Qasymeh
Michael
M
Cada
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