Light guiding light: Letting light be the master of its own destiny

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 35-39

  Snyder, Allan W ^a   Ladouceur, François ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

GUIDING LIGHT; PHOTONICS; SOLITON DYNAMICS;

LIGHT;

EID: 0033074368     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.10.2.000035     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. R.Y. Chiao et al., "Self-trapping of optical beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 479-480 (1964).
2. Recent reviews include: M. Segev and G. Stegeman, "Self trapping of optical beams," Phys. Today 51, 42-48 (1998);
3. B. Luther-Davies et al., "Optical vortex solitons," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 3045-3053 (1997);
4. A.W. Snyder and Y.S. Kivshar, "Bright spatial solitons in non-Kerr material," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 3025-3031 (1997).
5. M. Mitchell and M. Segev, "Self-trapping of incoherent white light," Nature (London) 387, 880-882 (1997).
6. Y.R. Shen, "Solitons made simple," Science 276, 1520 (1997);
7. A.W. Snyder and D.J. Mitchell, "Accessible solitons," Science 276, 1538-1541 (1997).
8. F. Ladouceur et al., "Optical components induced by repelling solitons," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 1768-1771 (1997).
9. A.W. Snyder et al., "Beam splitting on weak illumination," Opt. Lett. 23, 4-7 (1998).