Polychromatic solitons and symmetry breaking in curved waveguide arrays. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We theoretically and experimentally study the nonlinear propagation of polychromatic light in curved waveguide arrays. We show that at moderate light powers the nonlinear self-action breaks the left-right symmetry of the polychromatic beam, resulting in the separation of different spectral components owing to the wavelength-dependent spatial shift. At high light powers a diffraction-managed polychromatic soliton is formed. These results demonstrate new possibilities for tunable demultiplexing and spatial filtering of supercontinuum light.

published proceedings

  • Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Qi, X., Garanovich, I. L., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W., Mitchell, A., Zhang, G., Neshev, D. N., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Qi, Xinyuan||Garanovich, Ivan L||Sukhorukov, Andrey A||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Mitchell, Arnan||Zhang, Guoquan||Neshev, Dragomir N||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

  • May 2010