Enhanced nonlinear interactions in optical slow wave structures and the limiting role of disorder

Shayan Mookherjea; Andrew Oh

doi:10.1117/12.722550

8 May 2007 Enhanced nonlinear interactions in optical slow wave structures and the limiting role of disorder

Shayan Mookherjea, Andrew Oh

Proceedings Volume 6582, Nonlinear Optics and Applications II; 65820G (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.722550
Event: International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

We describe the waveguiding principles of optical slow-wave structures that lead to the tight-binding form of the dispersion relation. In the presence of the optical Kerr effect, we show that soliton-like non-propagating envelopes ("frozen light") can be expected, but the presence of disorder e.g., in the coupling coefficients between neighboring unit cells, creates a band-tail at the edges of the dispersion relation and causes non-zero propagation velocity of such pulses.

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Shayan Mookherjea and Andrew Oh "Enhanced nonlinear interactions in optical slow wave structures and the limiting role of disorder", Proc. SPIE 6582, Nonlinear Optics and Applications II, 65820G (8 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.722550

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