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Instability of Fast Kerr Solitons in Aigaas Waveguides at 1.55 Microns

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Soliton-driven Photonics

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We observed experimentally a power-dependent polarization instability of the fast spatial soliton in AIGaAs slab waveguides. The slow soliton remains stable. The instability occurs at power levels below which the nonlinear index change becomes comparable to the birefringence and is caused by coupling to radiation fields via four- wave mixing.

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  1. CREOL / School of Optics, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., 32816-2700, Orlando, Florida, USA

    Lars Friedrich, Roman R. Malendevich & George I. Stegeman

  2. Instituto de Óptica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Serrano 121, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Jose M. Soto-Crespo

  3. Optical Sciences Center, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia

    Nail N. Akhmediev

  4. Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, Scotland

    J. Stewart Aitchison

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  1. Joule Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Salford, Salford, UK

    A. D. Boardman

  2. Radiophysics Department, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    A. P. Sukhorukov

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Friedrich, L., Malendevich, R.R., Stegeman, G.I., Soto-Crespo, J.M., Akhmediev, N.N., Stewart Aitchison, J. (2001). Instability of Fast Kerr Solitons in Aigaas Waveguides at 1.55 Microns. In: Boardman, A.D., Sukhorukov, A.P. (eds) Soliton-driven Photonics. NATO Science Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0682-8_32

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