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Modeling light trapping in nonlinear photonic structures
Alejandro AcevesDepartment of Mathematics and StatisticsThe University of New Mexico
Work in collaboration with Tomas Dohnal, ETH Zurich Center for Nonlinear Mathematics and Applications, AIMS, Poitiers, June 2006
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What is a nonlinear photonic structure It is an “engineered” optical medium with
periodic properties. Photonic structures are built to manipulate
light (slow light, light localization, trap light) I’ll show some examples, but this talk will
concentrate on 2-dim periodic waveguides
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Photonic structures with periodic index of refraction in the direction of propagation
I. 1D periodic structures – photonic crystal fibers fiber gratings
• Gap solitons (Theory: A.A, S. Wabnitz, Exp: Eggleton, Slusher (Bell Labs))
• Fiber gratings with defects – stopping of light (Goodman, Slusher, Weinstein 2002)
II. 2D periodic structures – waveguide gratings (T. Dohnal, A.A)• x- uniform medium with a z- grating
• z- grating, guiding in x2D soliton-like bullets
• Interactions of 2 bullets
• waveguide gratings with defects
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Motivation of studyWe take advantage of periodic structures and nonlinear effects to propose new
stable and robust systems relevant to optical systems.
- Periodic structure - material with a periodically varying index of refraction (“grating”)
- Nonlinearity - dependence of the refractive index on the intensity of the electric field (Kerr nonlinearity)
The effects we seek:• existence of stable localized solutions – solitary waves, solitons• short formation lengths of these stable pulses• possibility to control the pulses – speed, direction (2D, 3D)
Prospective applications:• rerouting of pulses• optical memory• low-loss bending of light
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Nonlinear optics in waveguides
Starting point : Maxwell’s equations Separation of variables, transverse mode satisfies eigenvalue problem
and envelope satisfies nonlinear wave equation derived from asymptotic theory
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This is the nonlinear Schroedinger equation known to describe opticalpulses in fibers and light beams in waveguides
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Solitons in homogeneous systems
Elastic soliton interaction in theNonlinear Schroedinger Eq.
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Optical fiber gratings
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1-dim Coupled Mode Equations
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Gap solitons exist. Velocity proportional to amplitude mismatchBetween forward and backward envelopes.
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1D Gap Soliton
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II. Waveguide gratings – 2Din collaboration with Tomas Dohnal (currently a postdoc at ETH)
z
x
yAssumptions:• dynamics in y arrested by a fixed n(y) profile• xy-normal incidence of pulses• characteristic length scales of coupling, nonlinearity and diffraction are in balance
BARE 2D WAVEGUIDE
- 2D NL Schrödinger equation - collapse phenomena: point blow-up
WAVEGUIDE GRATING
- 2D CME - no collapse - possibility of localization
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Dispersion relation for coupled mode equations
Frequency gap region.We will study dynamics in thisregime.
zk
Close, but outside the gapWell approximated by the2D NLSE + higher ordercorrections.Collapse arrest shown byFibich, Ilan, A.A (2002).But dynamics is unstable
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Governing equations : 2D Coupled Mode Equations
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advection diffraction coupling non-linearity
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Stationary solutions via Newton’s iteration
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Stationary case I
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Stationary case I
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Nonexistence of minima of the Hamiltonian
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Defects in 1d gratings
Trapping of a gap soliton bullet in a defect. (this concept has been theoretically demonstrated by Goodman, Weinstein, Slusher for the 1-dim (fiber Bragg grating with a defect) case).
Ref: R. Goodman et.al., JOSA B 19, 1635 (July 2002)
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Governing equations : 2D CME
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κ=const., V=0 (no defect): Moving gap soliton bullet
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2-D version of resonant trapping
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3 trapping cases (GS: ω(v=0) ≈ 0.96)1. Trapping into two defect modes
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Trapping into 2 modes (movie)
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3 trapping cases (GS: ω(v=0) ≈ 0.96)
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Trapping into 1 mode (movie)
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3 trapping cases (GS: ω(v=0) ≈ 0.96)3. No trapping
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← ALL FAR FROM RESONANCE
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No trapping (movie)
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Finite dimensional approximation of the trapped dynamics
Less energy trapped
=> better agreement
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Reflection from a “repelling” defect potential
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Reflection with a tilt, “bouncing” beam
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Conclusions
2d nonlinear photonic structures show promising properties for quasi-stable propagation of “slow” light-bullets
With the addition of defects, we presented examples of resonant trapping
Research in line with other interesting schemes to slow down light for eventually having all optical logic devices (eg. buffers)
Work recently appeared in Studies in Applied Math (2005)