Bright and dark gap solitons in a negative index fabry-pérot etalon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  D'Aguanno, Giuseppe ^a,b   Mattiucci, Nadia ^a,b,c   Scalora, Michael ^b   Bloemer, Mark J ^b  

^a TIME DOMAIN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b US Army Aviation and Missile Command   (United States)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP SOLITONS (GS); NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIALS; QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY; SHALLOW GRATINGS;

CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ETALONS; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT REFRACTION; ONE DIMENSIONAL; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SOLITONS;

EID: 45849154991     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.213902     Document Type: Article

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24. Here we refer to a "true" in-gap dark soliton, i.e., a dark gap soliton excited by a single pump with no external feedback mechanism to reinject the output field back into the structure. This external feedback scheme indeed can lead to delocalized modes excited by two counter-propagating pumps. In this regard, it is well known that in the linear regime a multilayer structure pumped on both sides can give rise to unusual delocalized states by simply choosing a proper phase link between the incident pumps; see M. Centini et al., Phys. Rev. E 67, 036617 (2003). Therefore, in the nonlinear regime dark in-gap solitons or delocalized modes can be excited using either external feedback or two counter-propagating pumps that may cause destructive interference and a local minimum inside the structure. A very good example of external feedback that can give rise to delocalized states in the gap of a multilayer structure is discussed in H. Alatas et al., J. Nonlinear Opt Phys. Mater. 13, 259 (2004).