MIDIT OFD CATS Modelling, Nonlinear Dynamics Optics and Fluid Dynamics Chaos and Turbulence Studies and Irreversible Thermodynamics Risø National Laboratory Niels Bohr Institute and Technical University of Denmark Building 128 Department of Chemistry Building 321 P.O. Box 49 University of Copenhagen DK-2800 Lyngby DK-4000 Roskilde DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark Denmark Denmark
by Andrey Sukhorukov
Optical Sciences Centre
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
MIDIT-seminar 465
Thursday October 7, 1999, 15.00 h
at MIDIT, IMM Building 305, room 027
Abstract:We introduce the concept of two-color multistep cascading for vectorial parametric wave mixing in optical media with quadratic (second-order or chi-2) nonlinear response, and present a full classification of the possible wave interaction processes. In particular, we demonstrate that light-guiding-light effects can be realized with quadratic spatial solitons. The effective waveguides are created by two-wave parametric solitons, which properties we describe with the help of the so-called `almost exact' analytical solutions.