Storage by trapping and spatial staggering of multiple interacting solitons in Lambda-type media

Beeker, Willem P. and Lee, Chris J. and Can, Edip and Boller, Klaus-J. (2010) Storage by trapping and spatial staggering of multiple interacting solitons in Lambda-type media. Physical review A: Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 82 (5). 053839. ISSN 1050-2947

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Abstract:	In this paper we investigate the properties of self induced transparency (SIT) solitons, propagating in a -type medium. We nd that the interaction between SIT solitons can lead to trapping with their phase preserved in the ground state coherence of the medium. These phases can be altered in a systematic way by the application of appropriate light elds, such as additional SIT solitons. Furthermore, multiple independent SIT solitons can be made to propagate as bi-solitons through their mutual interaction with a separate light eld. Finally, we demonstrate that control of the SIT soliton phase can be used to implement an optical exclusive-or gate.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2010 The American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics (LPNO)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/75232
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.82.053839
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