Speed of light control via resonant nonlinearity and disorder in a photonic crystal

Igor V. Mel'nikov; Anton N. Knigavko

doi:10.1117/12.816340

2 February 2009 Speed of light control via resonant nonlinearity and disorder in a photonic crystal

Igor V. Mel'nikov, Anton N. Knigavko

Proceedings Volume 7226, Advances in Slow and Fast Light II; 72260U (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816340
Event: SPIE OPTO: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate and explain interesting dynamics of both a pair of gap solitons or a single gap soliton in a resonant photonic crystal whusing both analytical and numerical methods. The most important result is the fact that we are able to show that the oscillating gap soliton created either by the presence of an inversion inside the crystal or by the Bragg resonance mismatch can be manipulated by means of a proper choice of bit rate, phase and amplitude modulation, or even by the resonance detuning We manage to obtain qualitatively different regimes of the resonance photonic crystal operation. A noticeable observation is that both the delay time and amplitude difference must exceed a certain level to ensure effective control over soliton dynamics. The modification of the defect that accomplishes the soliton trapping can make the dynamics of N soliton trains in the resonant photonic crystal with defects even more interesting and is a subject of the future work.

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Igor V. Mel'nikov and Anton N. Knigavko "Speed of light control via resonant nonlinearity and disorder in a photonic crystal", Proc. SPIE 7226, Advances in Slow and Fast Light II, 72260U (2 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.816340

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