Autoresonant Dynamics of Optical Guided Waves

Journal Article · Fri Sep 18 04:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.103.123901· OSTI ID:21370680

Barak, Assaf; Lamhot, Yuval; Segev, Mordechai ^[1]; Friedland, Lazar ^[2]

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1. Physics Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 (Israel)
2. Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904 (Israel)

We study, theoretically and experimentally, autoresonant dynamics of optical waves in a spatially chirped nonlinear directional coupler. We show that adiabatic passage through a linear resonance in a weakly coupled light-wave system yields a sharp threshold transition to nonlinear phase locking and amplification to predetermined amplitudes. This constitutes the first observation of autoresonance phenomena in optics.

• OSTI ID: 21370680
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 103; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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VISIBLE RADIATION