Abstract

We discuss potential applications of multicolor solitons supported by periodic lattices imprinted in quadratic nonlinear media. Such lattice solitons can be packed together with appropriate relative phases to form stable soliton trains that can be treated as bit sequences. We describe controllable splitting of the trains into their soliton constituents and the angle- and power-controlled steering and trapping of solitons moving across the lattice into the desired guiding channel.

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Multicolor lattice solitons

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lluis Torner, and Victor A. Vysloukh
Opt. Lett. 29(10) 1117-1119 (2004)

Stable soliton complexes in two-dimensional photonic lattices

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Alexey A. Egorov, Lluis Torner, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Opt. Lett. 29(16) 1918-1920 (2004)

Soliton trains in photonic lattices

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Opt. Express 12(13) 2831-2837 (2004)

Parametric amplification of soliton steering in optical lattices

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lluis Torner, and Victor A. Vysloukh
Opt. Lett. 29(10) 1102-1104 (2004)

Spatial soliton switching in quasi-continuous optical arrays

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Anna S. Zelenina, Lluis Torner, and Victor A. Vysloukh
Opt. Lett. 29(7) 766-768 (2004)