Lightons: phonons with light

Nuno A. Silva; M. I. Carvalho; A. Guerreiro

doi:10.1117/12.2027613

18 November 2013 Lightons: phonons with light

Nuno A. Silva, M. I. Carvalho, A. Guerreiro

Proceedings Volume 8785, 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications; 8785FJ (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2027613
Event: 8th Ibero American Optics Meeting/11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications, 2013, Porto, Portugal

Abstract

Spatial solitons are robust localized nonlinear waves that are able to propagate without significant changes to their structure. Most of the proposal of the application of solitons uses them to transmit and process information in optical fibers and optical circuits. In the later the solitons can be guided through different paths by presetting some soliton characteristics (such as the phase), and even using some solitons to control the path of other pulses. In this paper, we use these properties of optical spatial solitons in a cubic nonlinear media to have lightons: phonon-like oscillations of a chain of solitonic light pulses. Conceptually, this work aims to explore the dual nature of solitons as a particle-like wave, by considering the displacement wave of solitons in a 1-dimensional chain.

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Nuno A. Silva, M. I. Carvalho, and A. Guerreiro "Lightons: phonons with light", Proc. SPIE 8785, 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications, 8785FJ (18 November 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2027613

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