Beam steering and routing in quadratic nonlinear media
- Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna, Barcelona (Spain)
We show how the spatial phase modulation of weak second-harmonic signals controls the overall direction of propagation of spatial solitons in quadratic nonlinear media. We investigate numerically such a process and discuss its applications to all-optical beam routing. 5 refs., 3 figs.
- Research Organization:
- New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG03-93ER25163
- OSTI ID:
- 472894
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/25163--T2; CONF-970515--1; ON: DE97005097
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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