Apodizer Design to Efficiently Couple Light into a Fiber Bragg Grating
We use an optimal control framework to efficiently couple light into a fiber Bragg grating, improving a previously-reported 66 percent transmission to 88 percent.
Vector soliton interactions in birefringent optical fibers
We consider the interactions of two identical, orthogonally polarized vector solitons in a nonlinear optical fiber with two polarization directions, described by a coupled pair of …
Trapping light with grating defects
Gap solitons are localized traveling waves that exist in Bragg grating optical fibers. We demonstrate a family of grating defects that support linear and nonlinear standing wave …
Stopping Light on a Defect
Gap solitons are localized nonlinear coherent states that have been shown both theoretically and experimentally to propagate in periodic structures. Although theory allows for …
Nonlinear propagation of light in one-dimensional periodic structures
We consider the nonlinear propagation of light in an optical fiber waveguide as modeled by the anharmonic Maxwell-Lorentz equations (AMLE). The waveguide is assumed to have an …