Image transmission using stable solitons of arbitrary shapes in photonic lattices
- 1 March 2011
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 36 (5) , 772-774
Abstract
We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally that photonic lattices under self-defocusing nonlinearity support gap solitons in various shapes such as cross and H shapes. These solitons, with their intensity humps all in-phase, are stable against perturbations, thus they propagate robustly throughout the lattices. Based on this finding, we propose soliton-based text/image transmission through bulk photonic structures.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- 973 Program of China
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